The Making of the National Poet - Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660-1769 (Paperback, Revised)

The century between the Restoration and David Garrick's Stratford Jubilee saw Shakespeare's promotion from the status of archaic, rustic playwright to that of England's timless Bard, and with it the complete transformation of the ways in which his plays were staged, published, and read. But why Shakespeare? And what different interests did this process serve? The Making of the National Poet is the first full-length study since the 1920s of the Restoration and eighteenth century's revisions and revaluations, and the first to consider the period's much reviled stage adaptations in the context of the profound cultural changes in which they participate. Drawing on a wide range of evidence - including engravings, prompt-books, diaries, statuary, and previously unpublished poems (among them traces of the hitherto mysterious Shakespeare Ladies' Club), it examines how and why Shakespeare was retrospectively claimed as both a respectable Enlightenment atuhor and a crucial and contested symbol of British national identity. This book is intended for scholars and students of Shakespeare and eighteenth-century literature and culture, cultural historians, theatre and art historia

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Clarendon Paperbacks
Release date:	November 1994
First published:	1995
Authors:	Michael Dobson (Assistant Professor of English)
Dimensions:	216 x 136 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	276
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-818323-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism Promotions
LSN:	0-19-818323-2
Barcode:	9780198183235

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