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Intertextuality and romance in renaissance drama : the staging of nostalgia

Title: Intertextuality and romance in renaissance drama : the staging of nostalgia / Richard Hillman.
Author: Hillman, Richard.
Publication: London : Macmillan, 1992.

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ix, 214 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This collection of essays applies the poststructuralist theory of intertextuality to the romantic drama of the English Renaissance, including work by Heywood, Beaumont and Fletcher, Ford, and especially Shakespeare. Placing the plays into dynamic relation with a wide variety of literary, cultural, and political "intertexts", ranging from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to the mythology surrounding King James's son, Prince Henry, causes them to signify in ways not previously appreciated, as well as to illuminate neglected features of the staged romance of the period, chiefly the complex element of nostalgia. Equally important is the objective of experimenting with intertextuality, originally conceived by French theorists to be a condition of textuality itself, as a critical methodology - one with a particular affinity for the genre and the period. A theoretical introduction reviews various understandings of intertextuality and suggests how the concept may be adapted to the specific intellectual and social contexts of renaissance drama.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-208) and index.

ISBN

033356703X
9780333567036

LCCN

91038479

OCLC

29387822
SCSB-2954382

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Columbia University Libraries