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Article: Engaging with Shakespeare: Responses of George Eliot & Other Women Novelists.(Review)
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- March 22, 2000
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Marianne L. Navy 1998. Engaging with Shakespeare: Responses of George Eliot & Other Women Novelists. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1994. Reprint. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. $17.95 sc. 271 pp.
It seems appropriate that Marianne L. Novy's Engaging with Shakespeare would be reprinted at a time when numerous Shakespeare plays and nineteenth-century women's novels are being adapted for the big screen. What we are observing in our own age is a dose cousin to the "engagement" that she observes on the part of women novelists. Her object of study is not the restaging of whole plays but the appropriation of elements from Shakespeare by Jane Austen, ...