%0 Journal Article
%T Reading from the Margin: Examining Nahum Tate¡¯s vs. Shakespeare¡¯s King Lear as Cultural Products
%A Ribut Basuki
%A Meilinda .
%J K@ta : a Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature
%D 2010
%I Petra Christian University
%X Nahum Tate¡¯s adaptation of Shakespeare¡¯s King Lear was so successful in Restoration theatre. Modern critics, however, regard Tate¡¯s work as a second class drama which deserves mockery and dismiss it from master narratives of the history of English theatre. Therefore, we examine the ¡®fields of cultural production¡¯ of Shakespeare¡¯s and Nahum Tate¡¯s King Lear from Shakespeare¡¯s time to the present to find out how each period values a certain work of literature. In the discussion, we would like to argue that the shifting ¡®fields of cultural production¡¯ determines the acceptance and rejection of Nahum Tate¡¯s King Lear. By analyzing the ¡®fields of cultural productions¡¯ of both plays, we show that Tate¡¯s has been excluded from the canonization within modern field of production¡¯s discourses because of shifting circles of belief.
%K cultural production
%K drama
%K theatre
%K Restoration
%K Elizabethan
%K circle of belief
%K traditional
%K modern
%U http://puslit2.petra.ac.id/ejournal/index.php/ing/article/view/18141