Shakespearean Intertextuality: Studies in Selected Sources and Plays

by Stephen J. Lynch

In reshaping Lodge's Rosalynde into As You Like It, Shakespeare not only undermines the Petrarchan and pastoral traditions of the romance, but also refutes the implicit gender structures upon which such Petrarchanisms are based. In refashioning The True Chronicle Historie of King Leir into the tragedy of King Lear, Shakespeare does not simply reject the explicit Christian setting and happy ending of Leir, but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313307261
• ISBN13: 9780313307263
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"