Adapting King Lear for the Stage

Contents: Introduction; 'Why this is not Lear': adaptations before the 20th century; 'Other accents borrow': Bottomley, Baring, and a new approach to adaptation; 'Only we shall retain the name': Bond's Lear and Barker's Seven Lears; 'Re-vision' of the kingdom: feminist adaptations of King Lear; Conclusion: 'The promised end'?; Bibliography; Index.

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• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Estudos literários: geral
• Estudos literários: peças e dramaturgos
• Peças de teatro, playscripts
• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900
• Literatura: história e crítica
• Estudos teatrais

Shakespearean adaptation studies;feminist theatre analysis;dramatic rewriting theory;historicity in performance;literary heritage critique;gender representation drama;modern reinterpretations of Shakespeare plays