Overview
- Analyzes Shakespeare adaptation in the nineteenth century, providing background for understanding contemporary adaptation
- Defines various forms of remediation to expand theories of literary adaptation and appropriation
- Considers the motivations of remediators who sought to monumentalize, copy, censor, or adapt Shakespeare
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About this book
Remediating Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries analyzes literary remediations of Shakespeare’s works, particularly those written for young readers. This book explores adaptations, revisions, and reimaginings by Lewis Theobald, the Bowdlers, the Lambs, and Mary Cowden Clarke, among others, to provide a theoretical account of the poetics and practices of remediating literary texts. Considering the interplay between the historical fascination with Shakespeare and these practices of adaptation, this book examines the endless attempt to mediate our relationship to Shakespeare. Howard Marchitello investigates the motivations behind various forms of remediation, ultimately expanding theories of literary adaptation and appropriation.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Howard Marchitello is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Rutgers University-Camden, USA. He is the author of The Machine in the Text: Science and Literature in the Age of Shakespeare and Galileo (2011) and co-editor (with Evelyn Tribble) of The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science (Palgrave 2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Remediating Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Authors: Howard Marchitello
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22837-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22836-1Published: 11 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22839-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22837-8Published: 01 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 230
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Shakespeare, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature