Reinventing Shakespeare (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gary Taylor
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary history and criticism
- Time of Work: 1660-1989
- Setting: Primarily Great Britain and the United States
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Culture, History, Literature, Drama or dramatists, Theater, Imperialism, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays, Great Britain, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: United States, Great Britain
Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History, from the Restoration to the Present is tripartite. The first five chapters trace the fortunes of popular and critical response to William Shakespeare, from the Restoration in 1660 until the mid-twentieth century; chapter 6, “Present Tense,” attempts to delineate what author Gary Taylor calls a “turmoil” in Shakespeare criticism; the seventh and concluding chapter, “Singularity,” is Taylor’s own appraisal of Shakespeare’s place in the literary firmament.
Taylor himself is a partisan, a fomenter of turmoil and a...
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