Shakespeare In The Eighteenth Century

Author : Fiona Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521898609
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by Fiona Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.

Author : Jean I. Marsden
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813161436
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Re-Imagined Text written by Jean I. Marsden and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays were not always the inviolable texts they are almost universally considered to be today. The Restoration and eighteenth century committed what many critics view as one of the most subversive acts in literary history -- the rewriting and restructuring of Shakespeare's plays. Many of us are familiar with Nahum Tate's "audacious" adaptation of King Lear with its resoundingly happy ending, but Tate was only one of a score of playwrights who adapted Shakespeare's plays. Between 1660 and 1777, more than fifty adaptations appeared in print and on the stage, works in which playwrights augmented, substantially cut, or completely rewrote the original plays. The plays were staged with new characters, new scenes, new endings, and, underlying all this novelty, new words. Why did this happen? And why, in the later eighteenth century, did it stop? These questions have serious implications regarding both the aesthetics of the literary text and its treatment, for the adaptations manifest the period's perceptions of Shakespeare. As such, they demonstrate an important evolution in the definition of poetic language, and in the idea of what constitutes a literary work. In The Re-Imagined Text, Jean I. Marsden examines both the adaptations and the network of literary theory that surrounds them, thereby exploring the problems of textual sanctity and of the author's relationship to the text. As she demonstrates, Shakespeare's works, and English literature in general, came to be defined by their words rather than by the plots and morality on which the older aesthetic theory focused -- a clear step toward our modern concern for the word and its varying levels of signification.

Author : Fiona Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107046300
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by Fiona Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book establishes the significance of actresses, female playgoers and women critics in shaping Shakespeare's burgeoning reputation in the eighteenth century.

Author : David Nichol Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by David Nichol Smith and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beauties of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kate Rumbold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316477894
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by Kate Rumbold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century has long been acknowledged as a pivotal period in Shakespeare's reception, transforming a playwright requiring 'improvement' into a national poet whose every word was sacred. Scholars have examined the contribution of performances, adaptations, criticism and editing to this process of transformation, but the crucial role of fiction remains overlooked. Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel reveals for the first time the prevalence, and the importance, of fictional characters' direct quotations from Shakespeare. Quoting characters ascribe emotional and moral authority to Shakespeare, redeploy his theatricality, and mock banal uses of his words; by shaping in this way what is considered valuable about Shakespeare, the novel accrues new cultural authority of its own. Shakespeare underwrites, and is underwritten by, the eighteenth-century novel, and this book reveals the lasting implications for both of their reputations.

Author : Peter Sabor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351900765
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century written by Peter Sabor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1700, Shakespeare was viewed as one of the leading Renaissance playwrights, but not as supreme. By 1800, he was not only widely performed and read but celebrated as a universal genius and a national literary hero. What happened during the intervening years is the subject of this fascinating volume, which brings together Renaissance and eighteenth-century scholars who examine how Shakespeare gradually penetrated, and came to dominate, the culture and intellectual life of people in the English-speaking world. The contributors approach Shakespeare from a wide range of perspectives, to illuminate the way contemporary philosophy, science and medicine, textual practice, theatre studies, and literature both informed and were influenced by eighteenth-century interpretations of his works. Among the topics are Falstaff and eighteenth-century ideas of the sublime, David Garrick's 1756 adaptation of The Winter's Tale and its relationship to medical theories of femininity, the textual practices of George Steevens, Shakespeare's importance in furthering the careers of actors on the eighteenth-century stage, and the influence of Shakespeare on writers as diverse as Edmund Burke, Horace Walpole, and Ann Radcliff. Together, the essays paint a vivid picture of the relationship between eighteenth-century Shakespeare and ideas about shared nationhood, knowledge, morality, history, and the self.

Author : David Nichol Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by David Nichol Smith and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kate Rumbold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107132401
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by Kate Rumbold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the significant presence of Shakespeare in major novels of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

Author : David Nichol Smith (Engelse literatuur)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by David Nichol Smith (Engelse literatuur) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: