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Shakespeare for the People - Working Class Readers, 1800-1900 (Paperback)
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Shakespeare for the People - Working Class Readers, 1800-1900 (Paperback)
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Beginning by mapping out an overview of the expansion of elementary
education in Britain across the nineteenth century, Andrew Murphy
explores the manner in which Shakespeare acquired a working-class
readership. He traces developments in publishing which meant that
editions of Shakespeare became ever cheaper as the century
progressed. Drawing on more than a hundred published and manuscript
autobiographical texts, the book examines the experiences of a wide
range of working-class readers. Particular attention is focused on
a set of radical readers for whom Shakespeare's work had a special
political resonance. Murphy explores the reasons why the
playwright's working-class readership began to fall away from the
turn of the century, noting the competition he faced from
professional sports, the cinema, radio and television. The book
concludes by asking whether it matters that, in our own time,
Shakespeare no longer commands a general popular audience.
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