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Author | : Fiona Ritchie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2012-04-19 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521898609 |
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This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.
Author | : Kate Rumbold |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316477894 |
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The eighteenth century has long been acknowledged as a pivotal period in Shakespeare's reception, transforming a playwright requiring 'improvement' into a national poet whose every word was sacred. Scholars have examined the contribution of performances, adaptations, criticism and editing to this process of transformation, but the crucial role of fiction remains overlooked. Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel reveals for the first time the prevalence, and the importance, of fictional characters' direct quotations from Shakespeare. Quoting characters ascribe emotional and moral authority to Shakespeare, redeploy his theatricality, and mock banal uses of his words; by shaping in this way what is considered valuable about Shakespeare, the novel accrues new cultural authority of its own. Shakespeare underwrites, and is underwritten by, the eighteenth-century novel, and this book reveals the lasting implications for both of their reputations.
Author | : Kate Rumbold |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107132401 |
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Explores the significant presence of Shakespeare in major novels of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.
Author | : Robert Gale Noyes |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781019965580 |
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This groundbreaking work of literary scholarship explores the ways in which Shakespeare's plays were adapted and re-imagined in the novels of the 18th century. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Noyes offers a fascinating glimpse into the literary world of the era. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Jean I. Marsden |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0813161436 |
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Shakespeare's plays were not always the inviolable texts they are almost universally considered to be today. The Restoration and eighteenth century committed what many critics view as one of the most subversive acts in literary history -- the rewriting and restructuring of Shakespeare's plays. Many of us are familiar with Nahum Tate's "audacious" adaptation of King Lear with its resoundingly happy ending, but Tate was only one of a score of playwrights who adapted Shakespeare's plays. Between 1660 and 1777, more than fifty adaptations appeared in print and on the stage, works in which playwrights augmented, substantially cut, or completely rewrote the original plays. The plays were staged with new characters, new scenes, new endings, and, underlying all this novelty, new words. Why did this happen? And why, in the later eighteenth century, did it stop? These questions have serious implications regarding both the aesthetics of the literary text and its treatment, for the adaptations manifest the period's perceptions of Shakespeare. As such, they demonstrate an important evolution in the definition of poetic language, and in the idea of what constitutes a literary work. In The Re-Imagined Text, Jean I. Marsden examines both the adaptations and the network of literary theory that surrounds them, thereby exploring the problems of textual sanctity and of the author's relationship to the text. As she demonstrates, Shakespeare's works, and English literature in general, came to be defined by their words rather than by the plots and morality on which the older aesthetic theory focused -- a clear step toward our modern concern for the word and its varying levels of signification.
Author | : Fiona Ritchie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2014-06-02 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107046300 |
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This book establishes the significance of actresses, female playgoers and women critics in shaping Shakespeare's burgeoning reputation in the eighteenth century.
Author | : David Scott Kastan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2001-09-20 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521786515 |
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An account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts into books.
Author | : Kate Louise Rumbold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9781316479490 |
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Author | : John Richetti |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1996-09-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139825046 |
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In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.
Author | : Robert Gale Noyes |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
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