Shakespeare Adaptations from the Early Eighteenth Century: Five Plays

The introduction provides background on the plays and playwrights as well as a critical understanding of the approaches to adaptation driven by historical context. All the plays collected have matters of state as their focus, and Ms. Johanson finds in them references to the major events of the day:...

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Published in:The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 2016, Vol.48/49 (2/1), p.148
Main Author: tier, Mark
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Drama
Historical text analysis
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Summary:The introduction provides background on the plays and playwrights as well as a critical understanding of the approaches to adaptation driven by historical context. All the plays collected have matters of state as their focus, and Ms. Johanson finds in them references to the major events of the day: the 1715 Jacobite Rising, the South Sea Crisis, and the Atterbury Plot. [...]if for some unfathomable reason scholars were to take an interest in these works, they would be likely to search out the original editions.
ISSN:0190-731X