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Fiona Ritchie analyses the significant role played by women in the construction of Shakespeare s reputation which took place in the eighteenth century. The period s perception of Shakespeare as unlearned allowed many women to identify with him and in doing so they seized an opportunity to enter public life by writing about and performing his works. Actresses (such as Hannah Pritchard Kitty Clive Susannah Cibber Dorothy Jordan and Sarah Siddons) female playgoers (including the Shakespeare Ladies Club) and women critics (like Charlotte Lennox Elizabeth Montagu Elizabeth Griffith and Elizabeth Inchbald) had a profound effect on Shakespeare s reception. Interdisciplinary in approach and employing a broad range of sources this book s analysis of criticism performance and audience response shows that in constructing Shakespeare s significance for themselves and for society women were instrumental in the establishment of Shakespeare at the forefront of English literature theatre culture and society in the eighteenth century and beyond.
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Fiona Ritchie analyses the significant role played by women in the construction of Shakespeare s reputation which took place in the eighteenth century. The period s perception of Shakespeare as unlearned allowed many women to identify with him and in doing so they seized an opportunity to enter public life by writing about and performing his works. Actresses (such as Hannah Pritchard Kitty Clive Susannah Cibber Dorothy Jordan and Sarah Siddons) female playgoers (including the Shakespeare Ladies Club) and women critics (like Charlotte Lennox Elizabeth Montagu Elizabeth Griffith and Elizabeth Inchbald) had a profound effect on Shakespeare s reception. Interdisciplinary in approach and employing a broad range of sources this book s analysis of criticism performance and audience response shows that in constructing Shakespeare s significance for themselves and for society women were instrumental in the establishment of Shakespeare at the forefront of English literature theatre culture and society in the eighteenth century and beyond.
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Fiona Ritchie analyses the significant role played by women in the construction of Shakespeare s reputation which took place in the eighteenth century. The period s perception of Shakespeare as unlearned allowed many women to identify with him and in doing so they seized an opportunity to enter public life by writing about and performing his works. Actresses (such as Hannah Pritchard Kitty Clive Susannah Cibber Dorothy Jordan and Sarah Siddons) female playgoers (including the Shakespeare Ladies Club) and women critics (like Charlotte Lennox Elizabeth Montagu Elizabeth Griffith and Elizabeth Inchbald) had a profound effect on Shakespeare s reception. Interdisciplinary in approach and employing a broad range of sources this book s analysis of criticism performance and audience response shows that in constructing Shakespeare s significance for themselves and for society women were instrumental in the establishment of Shakespeare at the forefront of English literature theatre culture and society in the eighteenth century and beyond.
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Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: plays and playwrights
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Fiona Ritchie
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Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107046306)