Modern Shakespeare Offshoots / / Ruby Cohn.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1976
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1316
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. A Mishmash of Adaptations and Transformations
  • Chapter 2. Macbeth: Poor Players That Strut and Fret
  • Chapter 3. Whole Hamlets of Tragical Speeches
  • Chapter 4. Lear Come Lately
  • Chapter 5. Peopling the Isle with Calibans
  • Chapter 6. Triple Action Theatre
  • Chapter 7. Shaw versus Shakes
  • Chapter 8. Brecht Changes Shakespeare
  • Chapter 9. Shakespearean Embers in Beckett
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Appendix A: Published Offshoots in Dramatic Form
  • Appendix B: Offshoots Discussed in the Book
  • Index
  • Backmatter