The Rise of Bardolatry in the Restoration: Paratexts of Shakespearean Adaptations and other Texts 1660-1737

by Enrico Scaravelli

Overview

This book explores from a new perspective the adaptations of Shakespeare in the Restoration, and how they contributed to the rise of the cult of the National Poet in an age where his reputation was not yet consolidated.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034320306
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	01/07/2016
Pages:	261
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Enrico Scaravelli is an independent scholar from the University of Florence in Italy, where he graduated in Foreign Languages and Literaures in 2004 and achieved a PhD in English and American Literatures in 2009. His main topics of interest are Shakespeare, the Anglo-Italian cultural exchange, and the paratexts of the Early Modern English drama.

Table of Contents

Contents: Bardolatry – Paratext – Adaption – Linguistics and Anthropolgy: Mikhail Bakhtin and Mary Douglas – Paratext I: The Peritext – Paratext II: The Epitext.

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