Classical Dimensions of the Robinsonade Pantomime: Neptune, Aphrodite, and the Threat to Civilization

• Autores: Rhiannon Easterbrook
• Localización: The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception / coord. por Hamish Williams, Ross Clare, 2022, ISBN 9781800854239, págs. 227-246
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 1897, Daniel Defoe teamed up with Neptune. Captain F. W. Marshall’s pantomime of Robinson Crusoe, at the Theatre Royal in the naval town of Plymouth, saw the author’s ghost connive with the Roman sea god to end the eponymous hero’s life and send him down to Davy Jones’s locker. If this seems like a departure from the original story, then Marshall was well aware: he has the long-deceased Defoe justify his murderous plan with the claim that Crusoe is no longer the character he created. By this stage in the reception of Defoe’s realist novel, liberties with the text...