Binding: Paperback
Description: Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing offers a rich account of Shakespeare's artistic development in against and beyond collaboration. We see him afresh as a poetic innovator in continual flux and in continual artistic debt: an author shaped by others in a collaborative network of intellectual influence and dynamic interchange and the book argues one that he helped substantially to create. In considering collaboration as a practice defining almost all of his earliest works it shows that he was particularly active in its development in the early theatre scene of his nascent career changing our sense of his development as a creative artist quite radically. Chapters exploring collaboration via theatre history book history and attribution debates complement the central three chapters detailing the different phases of Shakespeare's collaborative work which reorient our shifting sense of what it meant to him and what he gained from it at these other key moments of his artistic career. In reconstructing the circumstances and outcomes of his pairings with other dramatists and scrutinizing more closely their artistic contributions Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing reconsiders the ways in which they influenced and challenged him to adapt and experiment with his writing in ways that go beyond the features of his solo - authored canon. In undertaking a rigorous appreciation of the structures and poetics of his co - authored works this book presents them as distinctive works of art that transform our understanding of Shakespeare the poet dramatist and enduring cultural icon.
Title: Shakespeare & Collaborative Writing
Author(s): Sharpe Dr Will (Teaching Fellow In Shakespeare Teaching Fellow In Shakespeare The University Of Birmingham)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198819646
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 9/30/2023
Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Category: Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights