S. Loftis

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Shakespeare's Surrogates

Rewriting Renaissance Drama

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Sonya Freeman Loftis is an Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Department of English at Morehouse College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us / Palgrave Macmillan
• 2013 edition
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781349469260
• ISBN-10: 1349469262
• Artikelnr.: 45082632

Rezensionen

"Sonya Freeman Loftis's Shakespeare's Surrogates: Rewriting Renaissance Drama is a strong collection of essays describing the various ways that Shakespeare is embodied and engaged on the modern drama stage." - Francesca Coppa, Professor of English, Muhlenberg College, USA