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The taste of the town : Shakespearian comedy and the early eighteenth-century theater / Katherine West Scheil.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR3097 .S34 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scheil, Katherine West, 1966-
- Series:
- Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
- The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--1625-1800.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--England--London.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- England--London.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays--Selections.
- Theater--England--London--History--18th century.
- Theater.
- History.
- Comedy.
- Genre:
- Adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 333 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1. Shakespeare "Made Fitt": Restoration Adaptations of the Comedies 26
- 2. "Above Ordinary Plays": Shakespearian Comedy, Spectacle, and Music 48
- 3. "Study [the] Audience as well as the Rules": Shakespeare and Changing Taste in Comedy 87
- 4. Shakespeare and the Development of the Afterpiece 153
- 5. Early Georgian Politics and Shakespeare 188
- 6. Shakespearian Comedy Before Garrick 201.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-313) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0838755372
- OCLC:
- 50960956
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