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Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
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OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and
Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and
teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare
criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in
its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion
of its subject. This book considers the impact and influence of
Shakespeare on writing of the eighteenth century, and also how
eighteenth-century Shakespeare scholarship influenced how we read
Shakespeare today. The most influential English actor of the
eighteenth century, David Garrick, could hail Shakespeare as 'the
god of our idolatry', yet perform an adaptation of King Lear with a
happy ending, add a dying speech to Macbeth, and remove the puns
from Romeo and Juliet. Garrick's friend Samuel Johnson thought of
Shakespeare as 'above all writers, at least above all modern
writers, the poet of nature'. Voltaire thought he was a sublime
genius without taste. The Bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu,
meanwhile, could be found arguing with Johnson's biographer James
Boswell over whether Shakespeare or Milton was the greater poet.
Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century traces the course of a
many-faceted metamorphosis. Drawing on fresh research as well as
the most recent scholarship in the field, it argues that the story
of Shakespeare in the eighteenth century has become a significant
'subplot' in later scholarship, made up of great debates about how
to read Shakespeare and how to rank him among the great English
writers, how to perform his plays and how to edit the texts of
those plays. This book surveys the critical and creative responses
of actors and audiences, literary critics and textual editors,
painters and philosophes to Shakespeare's works, while also
suggesting how the Shakespeare of the theatre influenced the
Shakespeare of the study, and how other, less straightforward
interactions combined to bring about this sea-change in English
cultural life. It speaks of the crucial role of Shakespeare in
eighteenth-century culture, and the importance of that culture's
absorption of Shakespeare for subsequent generations. This is a
book about what the eighteenth century did to Shakespeare - and
vice versa.
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