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Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence: Politics, Print and Alteration, 1642–1700
Shakespeare's rise to prominence was by no means inevitable. While he was popular in his lifetime, the number of new editions and revivals of his plays declined over the following decades. Emma Depledge uses the methodologies of book and theatre history to provide a re-assessment of the reputation a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640–1740
Canonising Shakespeare offers the first comprehensive reassessment of Shakespeare's afterlife as a print phenomenon, demonstrating the crucial role that the book trade played in his rise to cultural pre-eminence. 1640-1740 was the period in which Shakespeare's canon was determined, in which the poe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Renaissance Shakespeare/Shakespeare Renaissances: Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress
by Stanley Wells • Sukanta Chaudhuri • Randall Martin • Brian Walsh • Ros King • James J. Marino • Graham Holderness • Barry Freeman • Shaul Bassi • Ann Jennalie Cook • Emma Depledge • Jean-Christophe Mayer • Patrick Lonergan • Courtney Lehmann • Sharon O'Dair • Poonam Trivedi • Supriya Chaudhuri • Darryl Chalk • M. A. Katritzky • Jill L. Levenson • Margaret Shewring • Hersh Zeifman • Robert Darcy • Joel Rodgers • Atsuhiko Hirota • Kimberly R. West • Richard Fotheringham • Eleanor Collins • Martin Hilský • Vlasta Gallerová • Karel Kríž • Robert Sturua • Galz Engler • Madalina Nicolaescu • Kaori Kobayashi • Zeno Ackermann • Tina Krontiris • Emily Oliver • Carla Della Gatta • Cristiane Busato Smith • Anna Cetera • Bi-Qi Beatrice LeiSelected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance context... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014