The appropriation of Shakespeare : post-Renaissance reconstructions of the works and the myth
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The appropriation of Shakespeare : post-Renaissance reconstructions of the works and the myth
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991
- : pbk
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This is an examination of the way in which Shakespeare's plays have influenced, and been influenced by, the various ages through which they have so passed. It examines the poet and dramatist as a cultural phenomenon about which many myths have grown.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, Jean I. Marsden
- accents yet unknown - canonization and the claiming of "Julius Caesar", Michael Dobson
- the restoration of "King Lear", Nancy Klein Maguire
- rewritten women - Shakespearean heroines in the Restoration, Jean I. Marsden
- Shakespeare in quotation marks, Margreta de Grazia
- Kemble, Scott and the mantle of the Bard, Nicola Watson
- caught in the act - or, the prosing of Juliet, John Glavin
- disintegration and its reverberations, Hugh Grady
- Bardolotry then and now, Howard Felperin
- the transvestite's progress - Rosalind the Yeshiva boy, Marjorie Garber
- Buzz Goodbody - directing for change, Dympna Callaghan
- Shakespearean features, Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey
- "Cymbeline"'s other endings, Ann Thompson.
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