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Shakespeare''s Stage Traffic - Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre

English · Paperback / Softback

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Contesting the notion of Shakespeare as originator, Clare demonstrates how Shakespeare adapted, imitated and borrowed from the work of others.

List of contents










Introduction; 1. Troublesome reigns; 2. Deposing kings; 3. Cross-cultural comedy; 4. Competing dramaturgies: later comedy; 5. Medley history; 6. Hamlet and the 'humour of children'; 7. Conversion: from Elizabethan to Jacobean theatre; 8. Generic transformations; Afterword.

About the author

Janet Clare is Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Hull and Director of the Andrew Marvell Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She is the author of Art Made Tongue-Tied by Authority: Elizabethan and Jacobean Dramatic Censorship (1990), Drama of the English Republic, 1649–1660 (2002) and Revenge Tragedies of the Renaissance (2007). She has published many articles on Renaissance and early modern literature and drama, co-edited the Journal of Early Modern Studies 2 on Shakespeare and Early Modern Popular Culture and reviewed Shakespeare productions in Ireland for Shakespeare Survey.

Summary

Shakespeare's Stage Traffic re-visions and re-situates Shakespeare's dramaturgy within the flourishing theatrical trade of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Challenging the traditional notion of Shakespeare as originator, each chapter examines particular plays demonstrating how throughout his career Shakespeare adapted, imitated and borrowed from the work of others.

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