Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence

Politics, Print and Alteration, 1642-1700

AvEmma Depledge

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Shakespeare's rise to prominence was by no means inevitable. While he was popular in his lifetime, the number of new editions and revivals of his plays declined over the following decades. Emma Depledge uses the methodologies of book and theatre history to provide a re-assessment of the reputation and dissemination of Shakespeare during the Interregnum and Restoration. She demonstrates the crucial role of the Exclusion Crisis (1678-1682), a political crisis over the royal succession, as a foundational moment in Shakespeare's canonisation. The period saw a sudden surge of theatrical alterations and a significantly increased rate of new editions and stage revivals. In the wake of the Exclusion Crisis, Shakespeare's plays were made available on a scale not witnessed since the early seventeenth century, thus reversing what might otherwise have been a permanent disappearance of his drama from canonical familiarity and firmly establishing Shakespeare's work in the national cultural imagination.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-26
Mått:157 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:570 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:262
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108427104

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Emma Depledge is a lecturer in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland. She is co-editor (with Peter Kirwan) of Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740 (Cambridge, 2017). She is currently completing a collection on John Milton and a monograph on mock heroic poetry and the book trade.

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'Emma Depledge's work displays a masterful synthesis of bibliographic expertise, dramatic close reading, theatre history, and cultural analysis. I find this a field-reshaping book, beautifully executed in all these various aspects. I plan to draw on its insights and envision assigning it in graduate and advanced undergraduate classes.' Lauren Shohet, Villanova University, Pennsylvania

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Shakespeare in the civil war and Interregnum years, 1642–59; 2. Shakespeare on the early restoration stage and page, 1660–77; 3. Shakespeare and the Exclusion Crisis, 1678–82: the decision to alter his plays; 4. The politics of Shakespeare alterations of the Exclusion Crisis; 5. Selling Shakespeare on the Exclusion Crisis stage and page; 6. Shakespeare in the wake of the Exclusion Crisis, 1683–1700.