Shakespeare's Alternative Tales: Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library
Autor Leah Scraggen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mai 1996
Shakespeare's Alternative Tales explores this literary dialogue, focusing on those plays in which the expectations generated by an inherited story are in some way overthrown, setting up a tension for a Renaissance spectator between 'received' and 'alternative' readings of the text. Each chapter opens with a familiar story, supplying a context for the subsequent discussion, and exhibits the way in which the dramatist's reworking of a traditional motif interrogates the assumptions implicit in his source.
While offering the twentieth-century reader a fresh perspective from which to view the plays, the approach also supplies an introduction to contemporary readings of the Shakespearean canon. The tales Leah Scragg considers may be seen as 'alternative' in more than one sense: they radically rework conventional situations, while lending themselves to analysis in terms of new critical methodologies.
The text will be of interest to both students of Shakespeare and the general reader. In conjunction with the author's companion volume, Shakespeare's Mouldy Tales, it provides an ideal introduction to contemporary developments in source studies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780582244849
ISBN-10: 0582244846
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0582244846
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Leah Scragg is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Her specialism is the work of John Lyly.
Cuprins
Introduction 1. Henry IV and the Tale of the Prodical Son 2. King John and the Tale of the Bastard Son 3. A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Tale of the Faithful Friends 4. Measure For Measure and the Tale of the Heoric Sacrifice 5. All's Well That Ends Well and the Tale of the Chivalric Quest 6. Cymberline and the Tale of the Substitute Bedmate Further Reading
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This study examines the background to the well-known tales that Shakespeare used in his plays, describing their conventional use and then showing how Shakespeare deliberately subverted the motifs in order to challenge audience preconceptions.
This study examines the background to the well-known tales that Shakespeare used in his plays, describing their conventional use and then showing how Shakespeare deliberately subverted the motifs in order to challenge audience preconceptions.