Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710Authorship and Appropriation is the first full-length study of the cultural and economic status of playwriting in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and argues that the period was a decisive one in the transition from Renaissance conceptions of authorship towards modern ones. Kewes offers a fresh account of the dramatic canon, revealing how the moderns--Dryden, Otway, Lee, Behn, and then their successors Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar--acquired an esteem equal, even superior, to their illustrious predecessors Shakespeare, Jonson, and Fletcher. |
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... final product . The ideal of composition as an act of inspired creation contrasts sharply with the notion of composition as a process in which to use the works of others and is , in certain circumstances , legitimate . The former ...
... final product . The ideal of composition as an act of inspired creation contrasts sharply with the notion of composition as a process in which to use the works of others and is , in certain circumstances , legitimate . The former ...
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... of the Shakespearian source by supplying it with the liaison des scènes and by refining the language . As a final stroke , Dryden claims to have modelled one of the scenes upon Euripides , and quotes THE PROPRIETIES OF APPROPRIATION 59.
... of the Shakespearian source by supplying it with the liaison des scènes and by refining the language . As a final stroke , Dryden claims to have modelled one of the scenes upon Euripides , and quotes THE PROPRIETIES OF APPROPRIATION 59.
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... final scene the Tutor , alongside other major characters , undergoes the reformation to which the title refers . Like Horace - Jonson in Dekker's Satiromastix , he is made to subscribe to a number of provisos . One of them obliges him ...
... final scene the Tutor , alongside other major characters , undergoes the reformation to which the title refers . Like Horace - Jonson in Dekker's Satiromastix , he is made to subscribe to a number of provisos . One of them obliges him ...
Contents
Prologue I | 11 |
The Proprieties of Appropriation | 32 |
Plagiarism and Property | 96 |
Copyright | |
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