{"product_id":"shakespeares-alternative-tales-longman-medieval-and-renaissance-library","title":"Shakespeare's Alternative Tales (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"310\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"14\"\u003eBook Title\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cem data-start=\"16\" data-end=\"49\"\u003eShakespeare's Alternative Tales\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"52\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"52\" data-end=\"62\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/strong\u003e: Leah Scragg\u003cbr data-start=\"75\" data-end=\"78\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"78\" data-end=\"87\"\u003eBrand\u003c\/strong\u003e: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis Ltd\u003cbr data-start=\"109\" data-end=\"112\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"112\" data-end=\"123\"\u003eEdition\u003c\/strong\u003e: 1\u003cbr data-start=\"126\" data-end=\"129\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"129\" data-end=\"140\"\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback\u003cbr data-start=\"151\" data-end=\"154\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"154\" data-end=\"173\"\u003eNumber of Pages\u003c\/strong\u003e: 168\u003cbr data-start=\"178\" data-end=\"181\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"181\" data-end=\"197\"\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 24-05-1996\u003cbr data-start=\"209\" data-end=\"212\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"219\"\u003eEAN\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780582244849\u003cbr data-start=\"234\" data-end=\"237\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"237\" data-end=\"259\"\u003ePackage Dimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches\u003cbr data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"286\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"286\" data-end=\"299\"\u003eLanguages\u003c\/strong\u003e: English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"312\" data-end=\"1002\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"312\" data-end=\"323\"\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr data-start=\"324\" data-end=\"327\"\u003eA knowledge of the history and evolution of the tales on which Shakespeare drew in the composition of his plays is essential for the understanding of his work. In re-telling a particular story, a Renaissance writer was not simply reshaping the structure of the narrative but participating in a species of debate with earlier writers and the meanings their tales had accrued. The stories upon which Shakespeare's plays are constructed did not descend to him as innocent collections of incidents, but brought with them considerable cultural baggage, substantially lost to the modern spectator but an essential component, for a contemporary audience, of the meaning of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1004\" data-end=\"1513\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1004\" data-end=\"1037\"\u003eShakespeare's Alternative Tales\u003c\/em\u003e explores this literary dialogue, focusing on those plays in which the expectations generated by an inherited story are in some way overthrown, setting up a tension for a Renaissance spectator between 'received' and 'alternative' readings of the text. Each chapter opens with a familiar story, supplying a context for the subsequent discussion, and exhibits the way in which the dramatist's reworking of a traditional motif interrogates the assumptions implicit in his source.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1515\" data-end=\"1913\"\u003eWhile offering the twentieth-century reader a fresh perspective from which to view the plays, the approach also supplies an introduction to contemporary readings of the Shakespearean canon. The tales Leah Scragg considers may be seen as 'alternative' in more than one sense: they radically rework conventional situations, while lending themselves to analysis in terms of new critical methodologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1915\" data-end=\"2162\"\u003eThe text will be of interest to both students of Shakespeare and the general reader. In conjunction with the author's companion volume, \u003cem data-start=\"2051\" data-end=\"2079\"\u003eShakespeare's Mouldy Tales\u003c\/em\u003e, it provides an ideal introduction to contemporary developments in source studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2164\" data-end=\"2278\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2164\" data-end=\"2174\"\u003eReview\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr data-start=\"2175\" data-end=\"2178\"\u003e\"A crisply-written study of Shakespeare's creative readings of his sources.\"\u003cbr data-start=\"2254\" data-end=\"2257\"\u003e– \u003cem data-start=\"2259\" data-end=\"2276\"\u003eEnglish Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2280\" data-end=\"2428\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2280\" data-end=\"2300\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr data-start=\"2301\" data-end=\"2304\"\u003eLeah Scragg is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. 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