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Book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by Fiona Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.

Book Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by Fiona Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book establishes the significance of actresses, female playgoers and women critics in shaping Shakespeare's burgeoning reputation in the eighteenth century.

Book Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century written by Michael Caines and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century Novel

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century Novel written by Kate Rumbold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the significant presence of Shakespeare in major novels of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

Book The Re Imagined Text

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean I. Marsden
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-07-15
  • ISBN : 0813161436
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book The Re Imagined Text written by Jean I. Marsden and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by David Nichol Smith and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by David Nichol Smith and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

Download or read book Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare written by David Nichol Smith and published by Glasgow, J. MacLehose and sons. This book was released on 1903 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century written by Peter Sabor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by David Nichol Smith and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by David Nichol Smith (Engelse literatuur) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare and the Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Scott Kastan
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2001-09-20
  • ISBN : 9780521786515
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Book written by David Scott Kastan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts into books.

Book Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century written by Jane Munro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by David N. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1989-06-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss written by Emily Hodgson Anderson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we recapture, or hold on to, the live performances we most love, and the talented artists and performers we most revere? Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss tells the story of how 18th-century actors, novelists, and artists, key among them David Garrick, struggled with these questions through their reenactments of Shakespearean plays. For these artists, the resurgence of Shakespeare, a playwright whose works just decades earlier had nearly been erased, represented their own chance for eternal life. Despite the ephemeral nature of performance, Garrick and company would find a way to make Shakespeare, and through him the actor, rise again. In chapters featuring Othello, Richard III, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, and The Merchant of Venice, Emily Hodgson Anderson illuminates how Garrick’s performances of Shakespeare came to offer his contemporaries an alternative and even an antidote to the commemoration associated with the monument, the portrait, and the printed text. The first account to read 18th-century visual and textual references to Shakespeare alongside the performance history of his plays, this innovative study sheds new light on how we experience performance, and why we gravitate toward an art, and artists, we know will disappear.

Book The Genesis of Shakespeare Idolatry 1766 1799

Download or read book The Genesis of Shakespeare Idolatry 1766 1799 written by Robert Witbeck Babcock and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eighteenth Century Essays On Shakespeare

Download or read book Eighteenth Century Essays On Shakespeare written by Smith David Nichol and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: