| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 305 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-294) and index. |
| Summary |
"Shakespeare's unique status has made critics reluctant to acknowledge the extent to which some of his plays are the outcome of adaptation. In Shakespeare's Stage Traffic Janet Clare re-situates Shakespeare's dramaturgy within the flourishing and competitive theatrical trade of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She demonstrates how Shakespeare worked with materials which had already entered the dramatic tradition, and how, in the spirit of Renaissance theory, he moulded and converted them to his own use. The book challenges the critical stance that views the Shakespeare canon as essentially self-contained, moves beyond the limitations of generic studies and argues for a more conjoined critical study of early modern plays. Each chapter focuses on specific plays and examines the networks of influence, exchange and competition which characterised stage traffic between playwrights, including Marlowe, Jonson and Fletcher. Overall, the book addresses multiple perspectives relating to authorship and text, performance and reception"--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Troublesome reigns -- Marlowe and the dramaturgy of the Queen's Men -- Shakespeare and the Queen's Men -- King John plays -- Troublesome Reign of King John -- Intertextualities -- True Tragedy of Richard the Third and Richard III -- Play of revenge -- Intertextualities -- History as performance -- 2. Deposing kings -- Chronology of Woodstock and Richard II -- Working with the chronicles -- Woodstock and Richard II: intertextualities -- Misgoverning and misgoverned -- History and tragedy -- Dramaturgy of Edward II -- 3. Cross-cultural comedy -- Publication of The Taming of a Shrew -- Authorship -- Dramaturgy of the 'Shrew' plays -- Lore of shrews -- Plautus and The Comedy of Errors: translation and imitation -- Stage traffic within Gray's Inn -- Comedy of Errors: Plautus re-visioned -- 4. Competing dramaturgies: later comedy -- Lyly's dramaturgy and A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Theories of playing -- Migrating tales -- Stage Jew: The Jew of Malta and The Merchant of Venice -- Romantic and satiric comedy -- 5. Medley history -- Impact of The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth -- Diversions of history -- Victories of Henry V -- 6. Hamlet and the 'humour of children' -- A series of Hamlets -- Countering The Spanish Tragedy -- Revenge of the boys --- Spanish Tragedy expanded -- Burlesque -- Revival of Jeronimo -- Dramaturgy of revenge -- 7. Conversion: from Elizabethan to Jacobean theatre -- Locating Measure for Measure -- Context of civic humanism -- Promos and Cassandra -- Intertextualities -- Duke: theatrical prototype and King James -- Leir and the matter of Britain -- True Chronicle History of King Leir, and his three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordella -- From romance to tragedy -- King Lear and the matter of Britain -- 8. Generic transformations -- Romance, tragicomedy, and 'late' Shakespeare -- Fletcher and tragicomedy -- Tragicomic dramaturgy -- Philaster and Cymbeline -- Cross-dressed heroines -- Dramaturgy -- Blackfriars -- When You See Me, You Know Me and Henry VIII -- Plays and patrons -- Henry VIII: stage traffic -- Afterword. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Imitation in literature.
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Imitation in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1600 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Clare, Janet, 1954- Shakespeare's stage traffic 9781107040038 (DLC) 2013023443 (OCoLC)852399959 |
| ISBN |
9781139626934 (electronic book) |
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1139626930 (electronic book) |
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9781107732087 (electronic book) |
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1107732085 (electronic book) |
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9781107040038 (hardback) |
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1107040035 (hardback) |
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9781107723962 |
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1107723965 |
| Standard No. |
10.1017/CBO9781139626934 |
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