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Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century 1st Edition by Peter Sabor, Paul Yachnin ISBN 0754662950 9780754662952

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Author(s): Peter Sabor, Paul Yachnin
ISBN(s): 9780754662952, 0754662950
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.22 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0754662950 
ISBN 13: 9780754662952
Author: Peter Sabor, Paul Yachnin

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.

Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century 1st Table of contents:

Part 1 Theorizing Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond
Introduction
1 „A System of Oeconomical Prudence„: Shakespearean Character and the practice of Moral inquiry
2 Shakespeare and Sympathy
3 The “Vexed Question„: Shakespeare and the Nature of Middle-Class Appropriation
Part 2 Eighteenth-Century Editors and Interpreters
4 The Influence of the Female Audience on the Shakespeare Revival of 1736—1738: The Case of the Shakespeare Ladies Club
5 George Steevens and the 1778 Variorum: A Hermeneutics and a Social Economy of Annotation
6 William Shakespeare and Edmund Burke: Literary Allusion in Eighteenth-Century British Political Rhetoric
Part 3 Eighteenth-Century Adaptation and Reception
7 Fairy Time from Shakespeare to Scott
8 Looking for Richard II
9 Awful Pomp and Endless Diversity: The Sublime Sir John Falstaff
10 Looking for “Newtonian„ Laws in Shakespeare: The Mystifying Case of the Character of Hamlet
11 Why Girls Look Like their Mothers: David Garrick Rewrites

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