Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710Clarendon Press, 1998 - 304 pages Authorship and Appropriation is the first full-length study of the cultural and economic status of playwriting in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and argues that the period was a decisive one in the transition from Renaissance conceptions of authorship towards modern ones. Kewes offers a fresh account of the dramatic canon, revealing how the moderns--Dryden, Otway, Lee, Behn, and then their successors Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar--acquired an esteem equal, even superior, to their illustrious predecessors Shakespeare, Jonson, and Fletcher. |
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... Soliciting Interpretation , 143-73 . MARSDEN , JEAN I. , The Re - imagined Text : Shakespeare , Adaptation , and Eighteenth - Century Literary Theory ( Lexington , Ky .: University Press of Kentucky , 1995 ) . ( ed . ) , The ...
... Soliciting Interpretation , 143-73 . MARSDEN , JEAN I. , The Re - imagined Text : Shakespeare , Adaptation , and Eighteenth - Century Literary Theory ( Lexington , Ky .: University Press of Kentucky , 1995 ) . ( ed . ) , The ...
Contents
Prologue I | 11 |
The Proprieties of Appropriation | 32 |
Plagiarism and Property | 96 |
Copyright | |
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