Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama

1. Introduction: Appropriating the Past
Graham Saunders

2. Why Rewrite Shakespeare and His Contemporaries?
Graham Saunders

3. A Host of Lears: Howard Barker’s Seven Lears, Elaine Feinstein’s Lear’s Daughters, and Sarah Kane’s Blasted

Graham Saunders

4. ‘Love in the Museum’: Howard Barker, the Erotic and the Elizabethan/Jacobean Text
Graham Saunders

5. ‘If Power Change Purpose’: Appropriation and the Shakespearian Despot
Graham Saunders

6. Anyone for Venice? Wesker, Marowitz, and Pascal Appropriate The Merchant of Venice

Graham Saunders

7. Festive Tragedy: Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem (2009)
Graham Saunders

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, Performing Arts, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British Culture, Literary History