Adapting King Lear for the stage
Bradley compares Nahum Tate's History of King Lear (1681), adaptations by David Garrick in the mid-eighteenth century, and nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques to twentieth-century theatrical rewritings of King Lear, and suggests latter-day adaptations should be viewed as a unique genre that allows playwrights to express modern subject positions with regard to their literary heritage while also participating in broader debates about art and society.--From front book jacket flap.
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- Full title :Adapting King Lear for the stage / Lynne Bradley.
Summary
Bradley compares Nahum Tate's History of King Lear (1681), adaptations by David Garrick in the mid-eighteenth century, and nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques to twentieth-century theatrical rewritings of King Lear, and suggests latter-day adaptations should be viewed as a unique genre that allows playwrights to express modern subject positions with regard to their literary heritage while also participating in broader debates about art and society.--From front book jacket flap.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ashgate
- Place of Publication:Farnham, Surrey, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:274 p. ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781409405979, 1409405974
- oclc:on1154914104
- LC Classification:PR2819
- Dewey Decimal:822.3/3
Table of Contents
"Why, this is not Lear": adaptations before the twentieth century -- "Other accents borrow": Bottomley, Baring and a new approach to adaptation -- "Only we shall retain the name": Bond's Lear and Barker's Seven Lears -- "Re-vision" of the kingdom: feminist adaptations of King Lear -- "The promised end?"
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