Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History, from the Restoration to the Present - Hardcover

Taylor, Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555840787 ISBN 13: 9781555840785

Publisher: Grove Pr, 1989

Synopsis

Discusses changing interpretations of Shakespeare and his plays, and explains how he became regarded as the English language's finest writer

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About the Author:

About the Author:
Gary Taylor is Associate Professor of English Literature at Brandeis University. He is a joint general editor of Oxford's Shakespeare: Complete Works, co-author of William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion and The Division of the Kingdoms: Shakespeare's Two Versions of "King Lear", and author of To Analyze Delight: A Hedonist Criticism of Shakespeare.

From Publishers Weekly:

A rising young textual critic and co-editor of the new Oxford Shakespeare --a Catholic University of America professor notorious for attributing a hitherto little-known manuscript poem to Shakespeare--here defines what "Shakespeare" meant in and to six periods in the past 350 years: the 17th-century English Restoration, the early 18th century, the Romantic period, the Victorian and post-Edwardian eras and the very recent past. Taylor discourses on how Shakespeare's works were edited, criticized, quoted, translated, performed and filmed, how his name and words were spelled, how he was graphically depicted. Although it focuses on the poet-dramatist's evolving reputation--which Taylor calls "Shakesperotics"--this lively survey also examines developments in publishing, journalism, theater, censorship, morality, education, sex, economics, politics, ideology, social and material culture. Among the enormous cast of characters engagingly presented are not only Garrick, Kean and Gordon Craig, but also Burke, Keats and Coleridge, Dowden, Bradley and Chambers, Shaw, Joyce and Cleanth Brooks.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 1555840787
• ISBN 13: 9781555840785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 461