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Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence - Politics, Print and Alteration, 1642-1700 (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence - Politics, Print and Alteration, 1642-1700 (Hardcover)
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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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