Remediating Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

• Main Author: Marchitello, Howard (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; British literature.; Shakespeare.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.

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,...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: "Shakespeare himself"
• Chapter 2: Monumental Shakespeare
• Chapter 3: Redaction
• Chapter 4: Retelling
• Chapter 5: Lamb's Lear
• Chapter 6: Design and the Fate of Character
• Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Time of Remediation.