Shakespeare and Genre [electronic resource] : From Early Modern Inheritances to Postmodern Legacies /
Guneratne, A.author.
Guneratne, Anthony R.
Provides a comprehensive survey of approaches to genre in Shakespeare's work. Contributors probe deeply into genre theory and genre history by relating Renaissance conceptions. In this sense, the volume proposes to read Shakespeare through genre and, just as importantly, read genre through Shakespeare.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Kin, Kind, and Shakespeare's Significance to Genre Studies; Section ection 1 S hakespeare and Renaissance Genres; Part I Origins and Conventions; 1 Shakespeare the Metalinguist; 2 Murdering Peasants: Status, Genre, and the Representation of Rebellion; 3 "The stage is hung with black": Genre and the Trappings of Stagecraft in Shakespearean Tragedy; Part II S hakespeare's Deployments of Genre; 4 Shakespeare's Development of Theatrical Genres: Genre as Adaptation in the Comedies and Histories
5 The Shakespeare Remix: Romance, Tragicomedy, and Shakespeare's "distinct kind"Part III S hakespeare and the Reconfiguration of Genre in Performance; 6 Turning Genre on Its Head: Shakespeare's Refashioning of His Sources in Richard III , King Lear , and The Winter's Tale; 7 Shakespearean Comedy, Tempest-Toss'd: Genre, Social Transformation, and Contemporary Performance; Section 2 S hakespeare and Contemporary Genres; Part I Shakespeare and Culturally Specific Genres; 8 Comical Tragedies and Other Polygeneric Shakespeares in Contemporary China and Diasporic Chinese Culture
9 King Lear East of Berlin: Tragedy under Socialist Realism and AfterwardsPart II Shakespeare-based Genres in Other Media; 10 Shakespeare and Film Genre in the Branagh Generation; 11 Genre and Televised Shakespeare: Evolving Forms and Shifting Definitions; 12 Shakespeare and Media Allegory; Part III S hakespeare as Genre; 13 Shakespeare among the Philosophers; 14 "I'll teach you differences": Genre Literacy, Critical Pedagogy, and Screen Shakespeare; Works Cited; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Provides a comprehensive survey of approaches to genre in Shakespeare's work. Contributors probe deeply into genre theory and genre history by relating Renaissance conceptions. In this sense, the volume proposes to read Shakespeare through genre and, just as importantly, read genre through Shakespeare.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
British literature.
Literature, Modern.
Theater—History.
Poetry.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Theatre History.
Poetry and Poetics.
Fiction.