I’ll be back
Marjorie Garber: Sequels, 19 August 1999
Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel
edited by Paul Budra and Betty Schellenberg.
Toronto, 217 pp., £40, February 1999,0 8020 0915 8 Show More
edited by Paul Budra and Betty Schellenberg.
Toronto, 217 pp., £40, February 1999,
“... a phase of ‘improving’ the imperfect Shakespeare, as for example in Nahum Tate’s version of King Lear, which allowed Cordelia not only to survive but to marry Edgar – a much more ‘satisfying’ result. And the 19th century produced one of my favourite ‘prequels’, Mary Cowden Clarke’s The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines, which offered the ... ”