Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence

Depledge, Emma

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“…41 Emma Depledge has drawn attention to the continuation of theatrical activity in the performance of drolls at fairs and taverns during the 1640s and 1650s, and their publication in forms that at least enabled, and possibly encouraged, amateur performance by those who purchased them. 42 There was a lengthy history of professional performance at the Inns, which resumed very soon after the return of the Stuarts. Indeed, Epicene was played at the Middle Temple by the King's Company on 2 February 1664.…”

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Amateur Theatre at the Early Modern Inns of Court? The Implications of a Performance Copy of Jonson’s 1640 Folio

Harrison¹,

Loxley²

2023

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This article discusses a recently rediscovered copy of Ben Jonson's 1640 Workes that contains seventeenth-century annotations to Epicene that suggest preparations for performance. We trace the folio copy’s provenance with the Powell family in Nanteos, Wales, and consider the possibility that it may have been annotated when in the possession of Sir Thomas Powell, a lawyer and judge who spent much of his life in London. We argue that the annotated play-text can be connected to four other playbooks by William Shakespeare and James Shirley that have been previously associated with seventeenth-century amateur theatricals, and that the new evidence provided by the Jonson text points plausibly to a practice of amateur performance at and around Gray's Inn in the middle of the century.

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Section: Private Playing At the Inns Of Courtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Amateur Theatre at the Early Modern Inns of Court? The Implications of a Performance Copy of Jonson’s 1640 Folio

Harrison¹,

Loxley²

2023

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Examining the Early Modern Canon: The English Short Title Catalogue and Large-Scale Patterns of Cultural Production

Tolonen

Hill

Ijaz

et al. 2021

Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture

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This chapter presents the findings of an ongoing digital project of the Helsinki Computational History Group at Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG) focused on the history of eighteenth-century book publication. The authors have created a historical-biographical database based on The English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC), a standard source for analytical bibliographic research, and extracted a data-driven canon which considers changes over time, subject-topics, top-works, authors, publishers, publication place, and materiality. This chapter provides both methodological and historical insights into the development of print and demonstrates the huge analytical potential of harmonized metadata catalogs. While quantitative analyses of the book trade were attempted before, they did not engage with the complex process of canon formation at such a large scale. The authors’ work highlights the formative role played by publishers in this process and the epistemological shift started at the end of the seventeenth century, when religious works were increasingly replaced by literary works. As the authors argue, this shift in the production and consumption of print allowed for a reinvention of the canon during the eighteenth century.

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War Without Shakespeare: Reading Shakespearian Absence, 1642–1649

Price¹

2019

Shakespeare Survey 72

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Shakespeare wrote in the shadow of war. His plays deal with the historical conflicts of medieval England and ancient Rome but they were written during the French Wars of Religion, the Anglo-Spanish War, the Nine Years War in Ireland and other significant pan-European conflicts. 1 In death, Shakespeare has only become more tightly entangled with the history of international conflict. Michael Dobson has argued that the Seven Years War helped accelerate the elevation of Shakespeare to the status of national icon. 2 Sarah Valladares has shown how the early-nineteenth-century Peninsular War provided the backdrop to the Covent Garden productions of J.P. Kemble, and the Shakespeare lectures of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 3 Douglas Lanier has written about the commemoration of the tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth in the American Civil War, Ton Hoensalaars about the reception of Shakespeare in World War I-era France, and Jésus Tronch about how Hamlet came to represent the sense of ineffectuality and irresolution experienced during the Spanish Civil 1 On Shakespeare and the French Wars of Religion, see Gillian Woods, Shakespeare's

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Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence

Cited by 9 publications

References 187 publications

Amateur Theatre at the Early Modern Inns of Court? The Implications of a Performance Copy of Jonson’s 1640 Folio

Amateur Theatre at the Early Modern Inns of Court? The Implications of a Performance Copy of Jonson’s 1640 Folio

Examining the Early Modern Canon: The English Short Title Catalogue and Large-Scale Patterns of Cultural Production

War Without Shakespeare: Reading Shakespearian Absence, 1642–1649

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