Shakespearean Intertextuality: Studies in Selected Sources and Plays [Hardcover]

In reshaping Lodge'sRosalyndeintoAs You Like It,Shakespeare not only undermines the Petrarchan and pastoral traditions of the romance, but also refutes the implicit gender structures upon which such Petrarchanisms are based. In refashioningThe True Chronicle Historie of King Leirinto the tragedy ofKing Lear,Shakespeare does not simply reject the explicit Christian setting and happy ending ofLeir,but engages and responds to the highly Reformational and Calvinistic assumptions that shape and inform the source play. In rewriting Greene'sPandostointoThe Winter's Tale,Shakespeare not only adapts the plot and characterization of the source, but consistently counters and refutes the rhetorical and linguistic structures of Greene's romance. And inPericles,Shakespeare adapts the Appolinus story from Gower'sConfessio Amantis,but also responds to suggestions in the source text about the authority of the role of the author.STEPHEN J. LYNCH is Professor of English at Providence College. He has published articles on Shakespeare in scholarly journals such asShakespeare Studies,Philological Quarterly,Mediaevalia,The Upstart Crow, andSouth Atlantic Review. He has also taught at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and at the University of Georgia.

Introduction: Rethinking Shakespeare's Sources
Representing Gender in Rosalynde and As You Like It
English Reformations in King Leir and King Lear
The Role of the Author in the Confessio Amantis and Pericles
Language in Pandosto and The Winter's Tale
Source Texts and Contexts
Works Cited
Index