Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century

Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century
Author: Peter Sabor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351900765

In 1700, Shakespeare was viewed as one of the leading Renaissance playwrights, but not as supreme. By 1800, he was not only widely performed and read but celebrated as a universal genius and a national literary hero. What happened during the intervening years is the subject of this fascinating volume, which brings together Renaissance and eighteenth-century scholars who examine how Shakespeare gradually penetrated, and came to dominate, the culture and intellectual life of people in the English-speaking world. The contributors approach Shakespeare from a wide range of perspectives, to illuminate the way contemporary philosophy, science and medicine, textual practice, theatre studies, and literature both informed and were influenced by eighteenth-century interpretations of his works. Among the topics are Falstaff and eighteenth-century ideas of the sublime, David Garrick's 1756 adaptation of The Winter's Tale and its relationship to medical theories of femininity, the textual practices of George Steevens, Shakespeare's importance in furthering the careers of actors on the eighteenth-century stage, and the influence of Shakespeare on writers as diverse as Edmund Burke, Horace Walpole, and Ann Radcliff. Together, the essays paint a vivid picture of the relationship between eighteenth-century Shakespeare and ideas about shared nationhood, knowledge, morality, history, and the self.

Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Fiona Ritchie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2014-06-02
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107046300

This book establishes the significance of actresses, female playgoers and women critics in shaping Shakespeare's burgeoning reputation in the eighteenth century.

Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Author: Kate Rumbold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2016-03-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316477894

The eighteenth century has long been acknowledged as a pivotal period in Shakespeare's reception, transforming a playwright requiring 'improvement' into a national poet whose every word was sacred. Scholars have examined the contribution of performances, adaptations, criticism and editing to this process of transformation, but the crucial role of fiction remains overlooked. Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel reveals for the first time the prevalence, and the importance, of fictional characters' direct quotations from Shakespeare. Quoting characters ascribe emotional and moral authority to Shakespeare, redeploy his theatricality, and mock banal uses of his words; by shaping in this way what is considered valuable about Shakespeare, the novel accrues new cultural authority of its own. Shakespeare underwrites, and is underwritten by, the eighteenth-century novel, and this book reveals the lasting implications for both of their reputations.

Shakespeare and the Book

Shakespeare and the Book
Author: David Scott Kastan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2001-09-20
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521786515

An account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts into books.

Shakespeare in Art

Shakespeare in Art
Author: Jane Martineau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN:

'Shakespeare in Art' looks at the huge variety of painters who made Shakespeare's extremes of passion, his evocations of nature, his spirit world and his eternally familiar characters the subjects of their own work. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Western culture.

The Book of William

The Book of William
Author: Paul Collins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009-07-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1596911956

A history of the Bard's competitively pursued First Folio traces the author's travels from the site of a Sotheby auction to regions in Asia, throughout which he investigated the roles played by those who have sought and owned the Folios.

Four Shakespearean Period Pieces

Four Shakespearean Period Pieces
Author: Margreta de Grazia
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2021-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 022678522X

"Margreta de Grazia continues to change the course of Shakespeare studies in this book, where she focuses on four key terms: anachronism, chronology, periods, and the grand secular narrative. These 'unassailable' terms, once considered the bedrock of what we 'know' and how we study Shakespeare, are now under debate in our particular moment in the study of the past"--

Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan

Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan
Author: Tiffany Stern
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198186819

Up until now, facts about theatrical rehearsal have been considered irrecoverable. But in this groundbreaking new study, Tiffany Stern gathers together two centuries' worth of historical material which shows how actors received and responded to their parts, and how rehearsal affected thecreation and revision of plays. Plotting theatrical change over time, from the mid-sixteenth to the late eighteenth century, this book will revolutionize the fields of textual and theatre history alike.

Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century

Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century
Author: Michael Caines
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2013-10
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0199642370

Surveys the critical and creative responses of 18th-century actors, audiences, critics, editors, artists, and philosophers to Shakespeare's work and traces how those responses influenced subsequent responses.