Shakespeare's alternative tales
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Shakespeare's alternative tales
(Longman medieval and Renaissance library)
Longman, 1996
- : pbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
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: pbk ISBN 9780582244849
内容説明
A knowledge of the history and evolution of the tales on which Shakespeare drew in the composition of his plays is essential for the understanding of his work. In re-telling a particular story, a Renaissance writer was not simply reshaping the structure of the narrative but participating in a species of debate with earlier writers and the meanings their tales had accrued. The stories upon which Shakespeare's plays are constructed did not descend to him as innocent collections of incidents, but brought with them considerable cultural baggage, substantially lost to the modern spectator but an essential component, for a contemporary audience, of the meaning of the work.
Shakespeare's Alternative Tales explores this literary dialogue, focusing on those plays in which the expectations generated by an inherited story are in some way overthrown, setting up a tension for a Renaissance spectator between 'received' and 'alternative' readings of the text. Each chapter opens with a familiar story, supplying a context for the subsequent discussion, and exhibits the way in which the dramatist's reworking of a traditional motif interrogates the assumptions implicit in his source.
While offering the twentieth-century reader a fresh perspective from which to view the plays, the approach also supplies an introduction to contemporary readings of the Shakespearean canon. The tales Leah Scragg considers may be seen as 'alternative' in more than one sense: they radically rework conventional situations, while lending themselves to analysis in terms of new critical methodologies.
The text will be of interest to both students of Shakespeare and the general reader. In conjunction with the author's companion volume, Shakespeare's Mouldy Tales, it provides an ideal introduction to contemporary developments in source studies.
目次
Introduction 1. Henry IV and the Tale of the Prodical Son 2. King John and the Tale of the Bastard Son 3. A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Tale of the Faithful Friends 4. Measure For Measure and the Tale of the Heoric Sacrifice 5. All's Well That Ends Well and the Tale of the Chivalric Quest 6. Cymberline and the Tale of the Substitute Bedmate Further Reading
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ISBN 9780582244856
内容説明
This study examines the background to the well-known tales that Shakespeare used in his plays, describing their conventional use and then showing how Shakespeare deliberately subverted the motifs in order to challenge audience preconceptions.
目次
- "Henry IV" and the tale of the prodigal son
- "King John" and the tale of the bastard son
- "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and the tale of the faithful friends
- "Measure for Measure" and the tale of the heroic sacrifice
- "All's Well That Ends Well" and the tale of the chivalric knight
- "Cymbeline" and the tale of the substitute bedmate.
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