|
Showing 1 - 2 of
2 matches in All Departments
Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that the adaptation of
Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern
drama's major aesthetic movements. This book reveals the way that
modern drama built itself in response to its Elizabethan past,
ransacking the literary work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
for 'new' innovations in dramatic technique and content. Indeed,
playwrights central to the evolution of modern and postmodern drama
often returned at key moments in their writing careers to the
remains of the Renaissance. Sonya Freeman Loftis argues that for
playwrights such as Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, Eugene O'Neill,
Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard, and Heiner Muller, Shakespearean
appropriation was central both to the creation of their public
personas and to the development of their own dramatic canons.
Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama
played a key role in the development of modern drama's major
aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to
Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public
personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the
development of new genres.
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.