The Re-Imagined Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory - Paperback

by Jean I. Marsden (Author)

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 16

Author Biography

Jean I. Marsden is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut.