Shakespeare’s Surrogates Rewriting Renaissance Drama
Description
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismModernPoetry20th CenturyEuropeanLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative
2013Book
Author(s)Sonya Freeman
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781137352538
LanguageEnglish
