Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:14th Sep '23
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This book investigates generic change in early modern theatre across multiple genres, unlike much other scholarship, attempting to understand change and innovation in terms of competition within the dramatic field. It draws on the work of Bakhtin and Bourdieu as well as theatre history, book history, and literary criticism to advance its argument about generic change and innovation.
Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries casts the familiar category of genre in a new light. It will help scholars and students of early modern drama use that category as early modern dramatists did — with an emphasis on its creative potential, not its limitations. -- Jeremy Lopez, Montclair State University * Early Theatre *
For Gieskes, early modern dramatic genres are social: not things to be understood in relation to abstract formal ideals, but processes negotiated within the dynamic contexts of literary production. His rich and wide-ranging book shows how the innovations of Shakespearean drama were the product both of a competitive theatrical marketplace and of a broader, complex, and deeply self-conscious poetic environment. -- Tom Rutter, University of Sheffield
ISBN: 9781474496735
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312 pages