During the nineteenth century the performance of Shakespeare's
plays contributed significantly to the creation of a sense of
British nationhood at home and overseas. This was achieved through
the enterprise of the commercial theatre rather that state subsidy
and institutions. Britain had no National Theatre, but
Shakespeare's plays were performed up and down the land from the
fashionable West End to the suburbs of the capital and the
expanding industrial conurbations to the north. British actors
travelled the world to perform Shakespeare's plays, while foreign
actors regarded success in London as the ultimate seal of approval.
In this book, Richard Foulkes explores the political and social
uses of Shakespeare through the nineteenth and into the twentieth
century and the movement from the business of Shakespeare as an
enterprise to that of enshrinement as a cultural icon. An
examination of leading Shakespearean actors, managers and
directors, from Britain and abroad, is also included in the study.
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