Rozett Constructing a World

Shakespeare's England and the New Historical Fiction
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8773-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Examines recent developments in historical fiction, with particular attention to the way contemporary writers have portrayed Shakespearean England.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rozett, Martha Tuck

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Historical Fiction Old and New
2. Of Narrators; or How the Teller Tells the Tale
3. Historical Novelists at Work: George Garrett and Anthony Burgess
4. Barry Unsworth's Morality Play and the Origins of English Secular Drama
5. Fictional Queen Elizabeths and Women-Centered Historical Fiction
6. Rewriting Shakespeare: The Henriad with and without Falstaff
7. Teaching Shakespeare's England through Historical Fiction
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martha Tuck Rozett is Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Talking Back to Shakespeare and The Doctrine of Election and the Emergence of Elizabethan Tragedy.