Shakespearean Intertextuality
Studies in Selected Sources and Plays
1st Edition
Published on 19. November 1998
136 pages
978-0-313-00213-7 (ISBN)
Description
In reshaping Lodge's Rosalynde into As You Like It, Shakespeare not only undermines the Petrarchan and pastoral traditions of the romance, but also refutes the implicit gender structures upon which such Petrarchanisms are based. In refashioning The True Chronicle Historie of King Leir into the tragedy of King Lear, Shakespeare does not simply reject the explicit Christian setting and happy ending of Leir, but engages and responds to the highly Reformational and Calvinistic assumptions that shape and inform the source play. In rewriting Greene's Pandosto into The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare not only adapts the plot and characterization of the source, but consistently counters and refutes the rhetorical and linguistic structures of Greene's romance. And in Pericles, Shakespeare adapts the Appolinus story from Gower's Confessio Amantis, but also responds to suggestions in the source text about the authority of the role of the author.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
ISBN-13
978-0-313-00213-7 (9780313002137)
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11/1998
Praeger Publishers Inc
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Person
STEPHEN J. LYNCH is Professor of English at Providence College. He has published articles on Shakespeare in scholarly journals such as Shakespeare Studies, Philological Quarterly, Mediaevalia, The Upstart Crow, and South Atlantic Review. He has also taught at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and at the University of Georgia.
Content
Introduction: Rethinking Shakespeare's Sources
Representing Gender in Rosalynde and As You Like It
English Reformations in King Leir and King Lear
The Role of the Author in the Confessio Amantis and Pericles
Language in Pandosto and The Winter's Tale
Source Texts and Contexts
Works Cited
Index
Representing Gender in Rosalynde and As You Like It
English Reformations in King Leir and King Lear
The Role of the Author in the Confessio Amantis and Pericles
Language in Pandosto and The Winter's Tale
Source Texts and Contexts
Works Cited
Index
