Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710

ISBN-13: 9780198184683 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 320 str.

Paulina Kewes

Opis

Authorship and Appropriation is the first full-length study of the cultural and economic status of playwriting in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and argues that the period was a decisive one in the transition from Renaissance conceptions of authorship towards modern ones. Kewes offers a fresh account of the dramatic canon, revealing how the moderns--Dryden, Otway, Lee, Behn, and then their successors Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar--acquired an esteem equal, even superior, to their illustrious predecessors Shakespeare, Jonson, and Fletcher.

Recenzje

the enormous strength of this monograph is the close attention given to the detail of the market as it developed.