Sep 7, 2008

Reinventing Shakespeare | Reinventing Shakespeare

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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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Reinventing Shakespeare | Reinventing Shakespeare

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