From his own lifetime thorugh to the present day, the one constant
feature of the English theatre has been the work of William
Shakespeare. Correspondingly, the influence of his poetry on the
critical tradition of successive ages has been central. With the
growing influence of neo-classicism after the Restoration,
Shakespeare came to be viewed with a mixture of awe and contempt;
as a brilliant but flawed artist. He was both subjected to
prescriptive literary criticism and frequently "re-invented"
according to largely irrelevant criteria, in his intepretation on
the stage. However, whether admired or reviled he was never ignored
and was consistently a seminal influence in the work of poets,
critics and actors. As the Romantic movement emerged, the rift
between the worlds of literature and the theatre began slowly to
heal and Shakespeare as the absis for serious theatrical art
appeared to become a possibility.
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