Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama

This book examines British playwrights'' responses to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries since 1945, from Tom Stoppard''s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem. Using the work of Julie Sanders and others working in the fields of Adaptation Studies and intertextual criticism, it argues that this relatively neglected area of drama, ...