The Re-imagined Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation, & Eighteenth-century Literary TheoryUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1995 - 193 páginas 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 |
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... writer's words . Criticism under these assumptions has consisted of a series of varying interpretations of an unchanging literary work . In con- trast , the later seventeenth century , though it held Shakespeare in high regard , did not ...
... writer's words . Criticism under these assumptions has consisted of a series of varying interpretations of an unchanging literary work . In con- trast , the later seventeenth century , though it held Shakespeare in high regard , did not ...
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... writers , in an ever increasing stream , attempting to imitate if not outdo them . This is the time when ... writer imprinting his or her own image on the works . The original work is perpetuated at the same time that it becomes itself ...
... writers , in an ever increasing stream , attempting to imitate if not outdo them . This is the time when ... writer imprinting his or her own image on the works . The original work is perpetuated at the same time that it becomes itself ...
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... writer and his establishment as " au- thor . " This notion was clearly absent in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century when the most radically revised adaptations were written . At the time , a writer did not own his works ...
... writer and his establishment as " au- thor . " This notion was clearly absent in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century when the most radically revised adaptations were written . At the time , a writer did not own his works ...
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... writers and their patrons . By the mid - eighteenth century , the lit- erary marketplace shifted from this small , educated elite , to a broad - based reading public . Fueled by growing literacy and the expanding market for the printed ...
... writers and their patrons . By the mid - eighteenth century , the lit- erary marketplace shifted from this small , educated elite , to a broad - based reading public . Fueled by growing literacy and the expanding market for the printed ...
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... writers proliferated to fill the demand for print ( their prominence reflected in the stock fig- ure of the Grub Street hack who replaces Bayes the hack playwright as literary stereotype — the setting is the publishing house not the ...
... writers proliferated to fill the demand for print ( their prominence reflected in the stock fig- ure of the Grub Street hack who replaces Bayes the hack playwright as literary stereotype — the setting is the publishing house not the ...
Índice
Radical Adaptation | 13 |
The Beginnings of Shakespeare Criticism | 47 |
Adaptation in Decline | 75 |
Criticism at MidCentury | 103 |
The Search for a Genuine Text | 127 |
Appendix | 155 |
Notes | 157 |
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Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century Peter Sabor,Paul Edward Yachnin Pré-visualização limitada - 2008 |