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@article{2360438,
author = {Krajník, Filip and Hrdinová, Anna},
article_location = {Ostrava},
article_number = {2},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/OJoEP.2023.15.0011},
keywords = {18th-century British theatre; Restoration theatre; Elizabethan theatre; The Taming of the Shrew; Shakespeare adaptations; farce; afterpiece; Cobler of Preston; Charles Johnson; Christopher Bullock},
language = {eng},
issn = {1803-8174},
journal = {Ostrava Journal of English Philology},
title = {(Not) Beyond the Shoe : Shakespeare and Theatre Rivalries in the Augustan Period},
url = {https://dokumenty.osu.cz/ff/journals/ostravajournal/15-2/OJoEP_23_2_Krajnik-Hrdinova.pdf},
volume = {15},
year = {2023}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 2360438
AU - Krajník, Filip - Hrdinová, Anna
PY - 2023
TI - (Not) Beyond the Shoe : Shakespeare and Theatre Rivalries in the Augustan Period
JF - Ostrava Journal of English Philology
VL - 15
IS - 2
SP - 31-47
EP - 31-47
SN - 18038174
KW - 18th-century British theatre
KW - Restoration theatre
KW - Elizabethan theatre
KW - The Taming of the Shrew
KW - Shakespeare adaptations
KW - farce
KW - afterpiece
KW - Cobler of Preston
KW - Charles Johnson
KW - Christopher Bullock
UR - https://dokumenty.osu.cz/ff/journals/ostravajournal/15-2/OJoEP_23_2_Krajnik-Hrdinova.pdf
N2 - Although the high cultural status of Shakespeare was well established in England by the 1760s, the preceding stage history of his plays and the related adaptations are culturally much more ambiguous. This paper focuses on two adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew that were produced in 1716 in London as two short farces, both entitled The Cobler of Preston and written by Charles Johnson and Christopher Bullock respectively. By taking into account the cultural and political circumstances of the period, the analysis of the two farces demonstrates that the establishment of farcical afterpieces, as one of the most popular and productive genres of early-18th-century English theatre, was greatly accelerated by the staging of the two Shakespearean adaptations. This further demonstrates that, at the same time as Shakespeare’s authority was gradually rising, adaptations of his plays actually contributed to the development of London commercial theatre culture, which was often presented as Shakespeare’s cultural opposite.
ER -
KRAJNÍK, Filip and Anna HRDINOVÁ. (Not) Beyond the Shoe : Shakespeare and Theatre Rivalries in the Augustan Period. \textit{Ostrava Journal of English Philology}. Ostrava, 2023, vol.~15, No~2, p.~31-47. ISSN~1803-8174. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.15452/OJoEP.2023.15.0011.
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