Women Talk Back to Shakespeare: Contemporary Adaptations and Appropriations

by Jo Eldridge Carney

Book Overview

This study explores more recent adaptations published in the last decade whereby women-either authors or their characters-talk back to Shakespeare in a variety of new ways.

"Talking back to Shakespeare", a term common in intertextual discourse, is not a new phenomenon, particularly in literature. For centuries, women writers-novelists, playwrights, and poets-have responded to Shakespeare with inventive and often transgressive retellings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367763524
• ISBN13: 9780367763527
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"