Any renaissance remake of Shakespeare is a nervous hoot of horror. At an
English university drama course almost 30 years ago I once played in Nahum
Tate's King Lear and the sheer pleasure of performing melodrama scared me
shitless. There was a truth in there shrouded by so many lies. But it was
fun. And I despised it.
Arni
on 10/20/01 11:21 PM, Robin Hamilton at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> "
> The Dryden/Davenant Tempest is a hoot. Davenant, who preceeded Dryden as
> laureate, claimed to be Shakespeare's bastard son, tho no one seemed to
> believe him. And it sure doesn't show in his writing.
> "
>
> As I don't have a text on my shelves, I just googled this. For anyone who's
> interested:
>
> http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/tempest.html
>
> Also came across a site that seems to list (with links, which can be
> accessed if you're in an "appropriate institution", which I'm not) the
> various Restoration Shakespeare adaptions -- hell of a lot more than I'd
> realised:
>
> http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/shak-adapt.html
>
> Another See What you Can't Get!! (Browse the Editions and Adaptations of
> Shakespeare Database -- authentication required) list is at:
>
> http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/shake/browse.html
>
> Robin
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