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E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Cohn Modern Shakespeare Offshoots


1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6782-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
 Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

ISBN: 978-1-4008-6782-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
 Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

Shakespeare's plays have never had a larger audience than they do in our time. This wide viewing is complemented by modern scholarship, which has verified and elucidated the plays' texts. Nevertheless, Shakespeare's plays continue to be revised. In order to find out how and why he has been rewritten, Ruby Cohn examines modern dramatic offshoots in English, French, and German.

Surveying drama intended for the serious theater, the author discusses modern versions of Shakespeare's plays, especially Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. Although the focus is always on drama, contrast is supplied by fiction stemming from Hamlet and essays inspired by King Lear. The book concludes with an assessment of the influence of Shakespeare on the creative work of Shaw, Brecht, and Beckett.

Originally published in 1976.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohn, Ruby

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Weitere Infos & Material

Frontmatter, pg. i
Foreword, pg. vii
Contents, pg. xi
Chapter 1. A Mishmash of Adaptations and Transformations, pg. 3
Chapter 2. Macbeth: Poor Players That Strut and Fret, pg. 60
Chapter 3. Whole Hamlets of Tragical Speeches, pg. 106
Chapter 4. Lear Come Lately, pg. 232
Chapter 5. Peopling the Isle with Calibans, pg. 267
Chapter 6. Triple Action Theatre, pg. 310
Chapter 7. Shaw versus Shakes, pg. 321
Chapter 8. Brecht Changes Shakespeare, pg. 340
Chapter 9. Shakespearean Embers in Beckett, pg. 375
Afterword, pg. 389
Notes, pg. 395
Appendix A: Published Offshoots in Dramatic Form, pg. 411
Appendix B: Offshoots Discussed in the Book, pg. 413
Index, pg. 417

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