Shakespeare’s Surrogates [electronic resource] : Rewriting Renaissance Drama /
Loftis, S.author.
Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the development of new genres.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Attacking the Canon through the Corpse; Chapter 1 "Blaming the Bard": Shaw, Shakespeare, Shotover; Chapter 2 Tearing the Skin Off of History: Brecht and the; Chapter 3 "To face my dead at last": The Personal and Literary; Chapter 4 "Some remains": Forgetting Shakespeare in; Chapter 5 "Blood is compulsory": The Player's Death in; Chapter 6 "A MOTHER'S WOMB IS NOT A ONE-WAY STREET": Reentering the Shakespearean Womb of; Afterword; Notes; Index
Includes index.
Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the development of new genres.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Literature, Modern.
Poetry.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.