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During the nineteenth century the performance of Shakespeare's plays contributed significantly to the creation of a sense of British nationhood at home and overseas. This was achieved through the enterprise of the commercial theatre rather that state subsidy and institutions. Britain had no National Theatre, but Shakespeares plays were performed up and down the land from the fashionable West End to the suburbs of the capital and the expanding industrial conurbations to the north. British actors travelled the world to perform Shakespeare's plays, while foreign actors regarded success in London as the ultimate seal of approval. In this book, Richard Foulkes explores the political and social uses of Shakespeare through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century and the movement from the business of Shakespeare as an enterprise to that of enshrinement as a cultural icon. An examination of leading Shakespearean actors, managers and directors, from Britain and abroad, is also included in the study.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: plays & playwrights

• Full title: Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire
• Author: Richard Foulkes
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780521034425
• ISBN: 0521034426
• ID: 02019311
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 379 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. December 2006

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