Shakespeare imitations, parodies and forgeries, 1710-1820 / edited by Jeffrey Kahan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kahan, Jeffrey, 1964-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Subcultures and subversions 1750-1850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Parodies, imitations, etc.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Forgeries.

English literature--18th century.

English literature.

English literature--19th century.

Genre:

Parodies, imitations, etc.

Parodies (Literature)

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

In their own day, the works in this collection of now all-but-forgotten plays, composed between 1710 and 1820, enjoyed much critical and commercial success. For example, Nicholas Rowe's "The Tragedy of Jane Shore" (1714) was the most popular new play of the eighteenth century, and the sixth most performed tragedy, following "Hamlet," "Macbeth," "Romeo and Juliet,"" Othello" and "King Lear." Even William Shirley's forgotten play, "Edward the Black Prince" (1750), "was well received with great applause" and had a stage history spanning three decades. This collection includes the performance text to the 1796 Ireland play, "Vortigern." The plays are all reset and, where possible, modernized from original manuscripts, with listed variants, and parallel passages traced to Shakespearean canonical texts. The set includes a new introduction by the editor, and raises important questions about the nature of artistic property and authenticity, a key area of Shakespearean research today.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0415288576

0415288584

0415288592

0415332400

0415332490

OCLC:

53485521