Shakespeare And The Eighteenth Century
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Author | : Fiona Ritchie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2012-04-19 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521898609 |
This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.
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.
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.
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.
Author | : David Nichol Smith |
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Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : David Nichol Smith |
Publisher | : Glasgow, J. MacLehose and sons |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1903 |
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Author | : Kate Rumbold |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107132401 |
Explores the significant presence of Shakespeare in major novels of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.
Author | : David Nichol Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 91 |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : Jean I. Marsden |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0813185556 |
Shakespeare's plays were not always the inviolable texts they are almost universally considered to be today. The Restoration and eighteenth century committed what many critics view as one of the most subversive acts in literary history—the rewriting and restructuring of Shakespeare's plays. Many of us are familiar with Nahum Tate's "audacious" adaptation of King Lear with its resoundingly happy ending, but Tate was only one of a score of playwrights who adapted Shakespeare's plays. Between 1660 and 1777, more than fifty adaptations appeared in print and on the stage, works in which playwrights augmented, substantially cut, or completely rewrote the original plays. The plays were staged with new characters, new scenes, new endings, and, underlying all this novelty, new words. Why did this happen? And why, in the later eighteenth century, did it stop? These questions have serious implications regarding both the aesthetics of the literary text and its treatment, for the adaptations manifest the period's perceptions of Shakespeare. As such, they demonstrate an important evolution in the definition of poetic language, and in the idea of what constitutes a literary work. In The Re-Imagined Text, Jean I. Marsden examines both the adaptations and the network of literary theory that surrounds them, thereby exploring the problems of textual sanctity and of the author's relationship to the text. As she demonstrates, Shakespeare's works, and English literature in general, came to be defined by their words rather than by the plots and morality on which the older aesthetic theory focused—a clear step toward our modern concern for the word and its varying levels of signification.
Author | : David Nichol Smith (Engelse literatuur) |
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Total Pages | : 91 |
Release | : 1967 |
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