The critics and playwrights of the Restoration had a problem with Shakespeare. They thought that his works were the foundation of their theatre and their literature, but they were disturbed by the distance between his poetics and their principles. They accounted him the greatest of all poets, but thought his verse disorderly, his language rough and obscure. These ambivalent feelings led them to seek a reconciliation that was ultimately realized off and on stage - by means of critical re-examinations and normalizing adaptations.
Shakespeare's Language and the Restoration
MORINI, MASSIMILIANO
2007
Abstract
The critics and playwrights of the Restoration had a problem with Shakespeare. They thought that his works were the foundation of their theatre and their literature, but they were disturbed by the distance between his poetics and their principles. They accounted him the greatest of all poets, but thought his verse disorderly, his language rough and obscure. These ambivalent feelings led them to seek a reconciliation that was ultimately realized off and on stage - by means of critical re-examinations and normalizing adaptations.File in questo prodotto:
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