Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence: Politics, Print and Alteration, 1642-1700

ISBN-13: 9781108447669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Switzerland) Depledge Emma (Universite de Fribourg

Opis

Argues that the Exclusion Crisis of 1678–82 should be considered the watershed moment in Shakespeare's authorial afterlife.

Recenzje

'The value of Depledge's splendid book is enhanced by its impressive scholarly apparatus, with twenty-two pages of works cited, plus many further references in the text and in the endnotes. Her thoroughly researched book will appeal to all Shakespeare scholars, not solely to those who specialize in the Restoration.' Richard M. Waugaman, Renaissance Quarterly

Spis treści

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.