Shakespeare, Adaptation, Psychoanalysis: Better Than New

ISBN-13: 9780367881887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 146 str.

Matthew Biberman

Opis

Through his study of the adaptations, Biberman pinpoints aspects of behavior and psychology that no longer ring true because circumstances have changed so dramatically between　Shakespeare's　time and the time of the adaptation. He shows how the adaptive changes reveal key differences between Shakespeare’s culture and the culture that then supplan

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CONTENTS

Note on Sources

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Beyond Bad Style, or the Curious Case of Adaptation

Chapter One: On Primary Adaptation: The Case of Nahum Tate’s "King Lear"

Chapter Two: Instances of Secondary Adaptation: Otway, Davenant and the Birth of the Cross-Over Episode

Chapter Three: Synchronous Adaptation: Hamlet, Macbeth, and the Double Falsehood

Chapter Four: Love and Adaptation: Antony and Cleopatra, Dryden’s All for Love, and Coriolanus

Chapter Five: Comedy, Tragedy, and Adaptation: The Tempest, The Enchanted Island, and Hamlet

Conclusion: Bad Style II, or Notes toward a Theory of Adaptation

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Matthew Biberman is Professor of English at the University of Louisville, USA. He is also the author of Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature (Ashgate, 2004) and the memoir Big Sid's Vincati (2009).