Shakespeare in His Country’s Service : Two Early-18th-Century Adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew

KRAJNÍK, Filip. Shakespeare in His Country’s Service : Two Early-18th-Century Adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew. In Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference 2023, 23-24 March 2023. 2023.

Basic information

Original name

Shakespeare in His Country’s Service : Two Early-18th-Century Adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew

Authors

KRAJNÍK, Filip

Edition

Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference 2023, 23-24 March 2023, 2023

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

William Shakespeare; Elizabethan theatre; Restoration theatre; Taming of the Shrew; Cobler of Preston; adaptation

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

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Abstract

V originále

The paper discussed two early-18th-century afterpieces based on the Induction of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. The pieces were staged under the same title, The Cobbler of Preston, in 1716 by two competing London theatres: Drury Lane, which wanted ostentatiously to show its loyalty to the then new Whig regime; and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, which sought to distance itself from the political situation in the country. While the Drury Lane version is a valuable example of Shakespeare being appropriated for the then current social and political climate, the Lincoln’s Inn Fields version is an early instance of Shakespeare being presented to London audiences as a national classic – a status that he fully gained only in the 1760s thanks the efforts of David Garrick.

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Links

MUNI/A/1054/2022, interní kód MU

Name: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies III Investor: Masaryk University, Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies III