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Shakespeare’s Surrogates

Rewriting Renaissance Drama
By:S. Loftis
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137352538
eText ISBN:9781137321374
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the development of new genres.