Shakespeare''s Rise to Cultural Prominence - Politics, Print and Alteration, 1642-1700

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Shakespeare in the civil war and Interregnum years, 1642-59; 2. Shakespeare on the early restoration stage and page, 1660-77; 3. Shakespeare and the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-82: the decision to alter his plays; 4. The politics of Shakespeare alterations of the Exclusion Crisis; 5. Selling Shakespeare on the Exclusion Crisis stage and page; 6. Shakespeare in the wake of the Exclusion Crisis, 1683-1700.

About the author

Emma Depledge is a lecturer in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland. She is co-editor (with Peter Kirwan) of Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640–1740 (Cambridge, 2017). She is currently completing a collection on John Milton and a monograph on mock heroic poetry and the book trade.

Summary

Combining scholarly methodologies of book and theatre history this book argues that the watershed moment in Shakespeare's authorial afterlife came not in the eighteenth century, as critics have suggested, but instead as a result of a succession dispute known as the Exclusion Crisis, 1678–1682.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Depledge, Emma (Universite De Fribourg Depledge
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781108447669
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44766-9
• No. of pages: 265
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean