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Shakespearean Intertextuality: Studies in Selected Sources and Plays

Shakespearean Intertextuality: Studies in Selected Sources and Plays

Lynch, Stephen J.

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies, Book 86

Literary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 0313307261
ISBN13: 9780313307263
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Nov 19 1998
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.34
Language: English
In reshaping Lodge's Rosalynde into As You Like It, Shakespeare not only undermines the Petrarchan and pastoral traditions of the romance, but also refutes the implicit gender structures upon which such Petrarchanisms are based. In refashioning The True Chronicle Historie of King Leir into the tragedy of King Lear, Shakespeare does not simply reject the explicit Christian setting and happy ending of Leir, but engages and responds to the highly Reformational and Calvinistic assumptions that shape and inform the source play. In rewriting Greene's Pandosto into The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare not only adapts the plot and characterization of the source, but consistently counters and refutes the rhetorical and linguistic structures of Greene's romance. And in Pericles, Shakespeare adapts the Appolinus story from Gower's Confessio Amantis, but also responds to suggestions in the source text about the authority of the role of the author.

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