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1 online resource |
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Oxford Shakespeare Topics |
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Oxford Shakespeare topics.
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Cover; Oxford Shakespeare Topics: Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; A Note on Texts and Abbreviations; Introduction; Remains of Shakespeare; The specifics. . . .; Reinventing, authenticating, making, constituting; 1: Cibber's Richard III, Rowe's Works; An improvement on Shakespeare; A risky business; Sandford and Shakespeare; The playwright and the essayist; 1709; Shakespeare's biographer; 2: Pope versus Theobald; Pedantry and punctuation; Squabbles; Editors versus actors; United in Newtonianism? |
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3: Macklin's Shylock, Shakespeare's StatueBefore 1741; From The Beggar's Opera to the Licensing Act; Shakespeare in Poets' Corner; 'Very laudable'; 4: Garrick; The Seven Ages of Garrick; Commentary and alteration; The Garrick myth; 5: Johnson's Plays, Garrick's Jubilee; The Jubilee: an uncritical interlude; Johnson and Shakespeare; 6: As Shakespeare Says; 7: Shakespeare Abroad; France et al.; Germany and America; 8: Unreal 'Shakspeare'; The texts after the Tonsons; The Ireland forgeries; 9: Shakespeare for Some Time |
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Appendix: Chronology of selected eighteenth-century editions of Shakespeare, critical studies, theatrical productions, and related events1700; 1701; 1702; 1703; 1708; 1709; 1711; 1712; 1714; 1715; 1716; 1717; 1719; 1720; 1723; 1725; 1726; 1727; 1729; 1731; 1733; 1735; 1736; 1737; 1738; 1740; 1741; 1743; 1744; 1745; 1746; 1747; 1748; 1749; 1750; 1752; 1754; 1755; 1756; 1758; 1759; 1760; 1761; 1762; 1763; 1764; 1765; 1766; 1767; 1768; 1769; 1770; 1771; 1772; 1773; 1774; 1775; 1776; 1777; 1778; 1779; 1780; 1781; 1782; 1783; 1784; 1785; 1786; 1787; 1788; 1789; 1790; 1791; 1792; 1793; 1794; 1795 |
| Summary |
OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. This book considers the impact and influence of Shakespeare on writing of the eighteenth century, and also how eighteenth-century Shakespeare scholarship influenced how we read Shakespeare today. The most influential English actor of the eighteenth century, David Garr |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 18th century.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production -- History -- 18th century
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Theater
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191642937 |
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0191642932 |
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9781306300483 |
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1306300487 |
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