Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century

This book considers the impact of the eighteenth century on Shakespeare, and vice versa. It describes how actors, critics, painters, and Enlightenment philosophers read and responded to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and how those plays and poems changed their lives.

List of contents

Introduction; Cibber's Richard III, Rowe's Works; Pope versus Theobald; Macklin's Shylock, Shakespeare's Statue; Garrick; Johnson's Plays, Garrick's Jubilee; As Shakespeare Says; Shakespeare Abroad; Unreal 'Shakspeare'; Shakespeare for Some Time; Appendix: Chronology of selected eighteenth-century editions of Shakespeare, critical studies, theatrical productions and related events; Further Reading

About the author

Michael Caines is an editor on the Times Literary Supplement. He has edited an anthology of plays by eighteenth-century women and an anthology about the actor David Garrick, and is a general editor of 'The Works of Nicholas Rowe' (forthcoming).

Summary

This book considers the impact of the eighteenth century on Shakespeare, and vice versa. It describes how actors, critics, painters, and Enlightenment philosophers read and responded to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and how those plays and poems changed their lives.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Caines, Michael (Assistant Editor Caines
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780199642373
• ISBN: 978-0-19-964237-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics; Oxford Shakespeare Topics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, Literaturwissenschaft: 1600 bis 1800, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker