Adapting King Lear for the stage
Exploring whether the impulse to adapt Shakespeare has changed over time, Lynne Bradley argues for restoring a sense of historicity to the study of adaptation. Bradley compares adaptations of King Lear from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries to twentieth-century rewritings of the play, suggesting modern Shakespeare adaptations represent a unique genre that permits playwrights to acknowledge their literary heritage while articulating more modern subject positions and participating …
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- Full title :Adapting King Lear for the stage / Lynne Bradley.
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Exploring whether the impulse to adapt Shakespeare has changed over time, Lynne Bradley argues for restoring a sense of historicity to the study of adaptation. Bradley compares adaptations of King Lear from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries to twentieth-century rewritings of the play, suggesting modern Shakespeare adaptations represent a unique genre that permits playwrights to acknowledge their literary heritage while articulating more modern subject positions and participating in broader debates about art and society.
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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:1 online resource (274 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781409405986, 1409405982
- oclc:ocn754793706
- 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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