Shakespeare and authority : citations, conceptions and constructions /: citations, conceptions and constructions. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Katie Halsey, Angus Vine, editors.
• Editors: Halsey, Katie; Vine, Angus Edmund
• Contents: Intro -- Note on the text -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Chapter 1. "Dressed in a little brief authority": authority before, during, and after Shakespeare's plays -- Part I. Defining and redefining authority. Chapter 2. Shakespeare's authorities ; Chapter 3. Inside the elephant's graveyard: revising Geoffrey Bullough's narrative and dramatic sources of Shakespeare ; Chapter 4. Author and authority in the OED: Nashe v. Shakespeare ; Chapter 5. "The King's English" "Our English?": Shakespeare and linguistic ownership ; Chapter 6. Foundations of sovereign authority: the example of Shakespearean political drama -- Part II. Shakespearean authority. Chapter 7. "A trim reckoning": accountability and authority in 1 and 2 Henry IV ; Chapter 8. The King's ring: a matter of trust ; Chapter 9. "Constant in any undertaking": writing the Lipsian State in Measure for measure ; Chapter 10. Duty and authority: Malvolio, stewardship and Montague's household book ; Chapter 11. Poetic authority in Julius Caesar: the triumph of the poet-playwright-actor -- Part III. Shakespeare as authority. Chapter 12. Authority of the actor in the eighteenth century ; Chapter 13. Shakespeare, rule-breaking and artistic genius: the case of Sir John Soane ; Chapter 14. Whose Gothic Bard? Charles Robert Maturin and contestations of Shakespearean authority in British/Irish Romantic culture ; Chapter 15. Authority, instrumental reason and the fault lines of modern civilization in Peter Brook's cinematic rendering of Shakespeare's King Lear ; Chapter 16. Will power: visualising Shakespeare's authority in contemporary culture -- Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 822.3/3; Literature; Authority in literature; Literature, Modern; British literature; DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Authority in literature; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: general; Electronic books; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137578532
• Related ISBNs: 113757853X; 9781137578525; 1137578521
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource ; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 30, 2018).
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