Constructing a World: Shakespeare's England and the New Historical FictionSUNY Press, 01.01.2003 - 206 Seiten Taking its title from Umberto Eco s postscript to The Name of the Rose, the novel that inaugurated the New Historical Fiction in the early 1980s, Constructing the World provides a guide to the genre s defining characteristics. It also serves as a lively account of the way Shakespeare, Marlowe, Raleigh, Queen Elizabeth I, and their contemporaries have been depicted by such writers as Anthony Burgess, George Garrett, Patricia Finney, Barry Unsworth, and Rosalind Miles. Innovative historical novels written during the past two or three decades have transformed the genre, producing some extraordinary bestsellers as well as less widely read serious fiction. Shakespearean scholar Martha Tuck Rozett engages in an ongoing conversation about the genre of historical fiction, drawing attention to the metacommentary contained in Afterwords or Historical Notes ; the imaginative reconstruction of the diction and mentality of the past; the way Shakespearean phrases, names, and themes are appropriated; and the counterfactual scenarios writers invent as they reinvent the past. |
Inhalt
Introduction Historical Fiction Old and New | 1 |
Of Narrators or How the Teller Tells the Tale | 27 |
Historical Novelists at Work George Garrett and Anthony Burgess | 49 |
Barry Unsworths Morality Play and the Origins of English Secular Drama | 83 |
Fictional Queen Elizabeths and WomenCentered Historical Fiction | 103 |
Rewriting Shakespeare The Henriad with and without Fahtaff | 143 |
Teaching Shakespeares England through Historical Fiction | 165 |
Notes | 177 |
Works Cited | 185 |
| 199 | |
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Constructing a World: Shakespeare's England and the New Historical Fiction Martha Tuck Rozett Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2012 |
Constructing a World: Shakespeare's England and the New Historical Fiction Martha Tuck Rozett Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2003 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
A. S. Byatt actors Anne Anne Boleyn Anthony Burgess author's note Barry Unsworth begins biography Bloody Field Burgess Cecil century chapter characters Christopher Marlowe chronicles constructed contemporary conventional Deptford describes detective fiction documents drama Dudley early Elizabethan English essay Essex Falstaff father Field by Shrewsbury Finney Finney's Firedrake's Eye first-person genre George Garrett Godric Henry Henry IV plays historians historical fiction historical novel historical novelist historiographic metafiction Hotspur imaginative invented John King King Lear Leicester letters literary lives London Lord Marlowe Mary medieval Morality Play mystery narrative narrator never Nicholas Nye's Pargeter Pargeter's past perspective phrases Pickleherring players plot postmodern Queen Elizabeth Raleigh reader reading reconstruction reign Richard Robert role says scene Shakespeare Shakespeare's England speak story tale tell Thomas tion torical Tudor Unicorn's Blood Unsworth voice William woman women words writing York young