Remediating Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries analyzes literary remediations of Shakespeare’s works, particularly those written for young readers. This book explores adaptations, revisions, and reimaginings by Lewis Theobald, the Bowdlers, the Lambs, and Mary Cowden Clarke, among others, to provide a theoretical account of the poetics and practices of remediating literary texts. Considering the interplay between the historical fascination with Shakespeare and these practices of adaptation, this book examines the endless attempt to mediate our relationship to Shakespeare. Howard Marchitello investigates the motivations behind various forms of remediation, ultimately expanding theories of literary adaptation and appropriation.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Howard Marchitello
EAN: 9783030228361
COUNTRY: Switzerland
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WEIGHT: 548 g
HEIGHT: 210 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-07-11
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century
WIDTH: 148 cm
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Book Themes:
Europe, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Howard Marchitello is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Rutgers University-Camden, USA. He is the author of The Machine in the Text: Science and Literature in the Age of Shakespeare and Galileo (2011) and co-editor (with Evelyn Tribble) of The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science (Palgrave 2017).
