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Shakespeare Reshaped, 1606-1623
Gary Taylor
John Jowett
出版
Clarendon Press
, 1993
主題
Drama / Shakespeare
Language Arts & Disciplines / Editing & Proofreading
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism
Political Science / Censorship
ISBN
019812256X
9780198122562
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vKVlAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
For much of the twentieth century, textual criticism of Renaissance drama concentrated upon the scribes and compositors who may have been responsible for changing the author's spelling, punctuation, and (occasionally) individual words. Shakespeare Reshaped instead focuses upon agents and institutions which affected playtexts much more dramatically: legislated expurgation, theatrical innovation, and posthumous adaptation. Expurgation transformed the linguistic texture of such works as King John and The Merry Wives of Windsor. The insertion of musical intervals between acts retrospectively transformed the structure ofplays as different as andIA Midsummer Night's Dream and King Lear. And, another playwright (probably Thomas Middleton) transformed Measure for Measure by expanding and adapting Shakespeare's original. Together, these studies produce a new model of the transformation of Renaissance plays by a collective industry of the imagination.