Reproducing Shakespeare: Rewriting Renaissance Drama

Loftis, S.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-12-16

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349469260

DOI: 10.1057/9781137321374

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 166