Alterations and Adaptations of Shakespeare (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Kilbourne, Frederick Wilkinson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330720105 ISBN 13 : 9781330720103

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2017

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Excerpt from Alterations and Adaptations of Shakespeare

All students of English literature are familiar with the fact that for a long period, beginning with the Restoration and practically ending with the eighteenth century, Shakespeare's plays were usually not represented in their unsophisticated forms but in altered or adapted ones conforming to the changed taste of the time.

A few of the more noteworthy of these revisions are known to such students and may have been read or glanced over by them, but general knowledge rarely goes beyond such facts as that Tate gave "Lear" a happy ending or that Cibber is responsible for certain phrases, as the well-known "Richard's himself again," which are still heard when "Richard the Third" is played and which are sometimes popularly attributed to Shakespeare. Even professed Shakespeare students, however, know little or nothing of the great body of these versions, which in the eighteenth century nearly or quite displaced the original plays - how extensively is testified by the interesting fact that the author of The Tatler, having occasion to quote from "Macbeth," quotes not from the original but from the D'Avenant alteration, apparently for the reason that its diction was the one that would be recognized by his readers or possibly because it was the one most familiar to himself.

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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330720105
• ISBN 13: 9781330720103
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 198
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