Intertextuality and Romance in Renaissance Drama: The Staging of Nostalgia

by Richard Hillman

Book Overview

These essays apply the postmodernist theory of intertextuality to 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' causes them to signify in ways not previously appreciated, as well as to define neglected features of the staged romance of the period. Equally important...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349221511
• ISBN13: 9781349221516
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"