Shakespeare's Surrogates: Rewriting Renaissance Drama

By Sonya Freeman Loftis

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137352531
• ISBN13: 9781137352538
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"