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...Christopher Salamone This article seeks to add nuance to the story of Shakespeare's canonization in the eighteenth century, a story that has hitherto neglected the part played by the period's poetic miscellanies. Are there patterns in the form, quantity, and selection of Shakespearean texts within...

...Yael Shapira This essay considers the limited presence of the dead body in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto . The near absence of gory death from the novella is striking, given both its intensive borrowing from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and its status as the founding work of the Gothic tradition...

...Aparna Gollapudi In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, John Bell commissioned hundreds of actor portraits in dramatic roles, which were published as book illustrations in the series Bell’s Shakespeare and Bell’s British Theatre. These portraits contributed significantly to the emergent...

...Edmund G. C. King Duke University Press 2008 R Pope’s 1723 – 25 Shakespear, Classical Editing, and Humanistic Reading Practices Edmund G. C. King University of Auckland In his 1756 Proposals...

...Janine Barchas; Kristina Straub “Curating Will & Jane” provides an overview of the exhibition, Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity , opening at the Folger Shakespeare Library in August 2016. Shakespeare and Austen became literary celebrities roughly 200 years after...

...Jack Lynch Vanessa Cunningham. Shakespeare and Garrick (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2008). Pp. vii + 231. 9 ills. $99 Reiko Oya. Representing Shakespearean Tragedy: Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2007). Pp. xii + 244. 20 ills. $95 Stuart Sillars...

...- wash that should not have been published.1 Much remains to be done with 1 0 2 Eighteenth-Century Life Cibber. Very few people realize that his plays were unquestionably among the most performed on the eighteenth- century London stage. Only Shakespeare s plays were performed more times than Cibber s...

...Figure 11. Peter Scheemakers, Shakespeare Monument (1741), marble, Westminster Abbey, London. Courtesy Westminster Abbey. ...

..., and that historicization and canonization are in some way linked.2 Several contributors to the debate have stressed as a determining fac- tor the historical sense that infused criticism and scholarship at mid-cen- tury, when writers such as Shakespeare and Spenser were awarded de- tailed attention previously...

... and Shakespeare, is thought to have premiered in 1613, only a year after Don Quixote was first translated into English. 5 Other dramatic imitations and adaptations of the novel—that is, plays that feature a Quixote or a figure inspired by Cervantes's novel—include the following: 6 Francis Beaumont's...

..., anachronistic, though trenching war (which, in a citation from Shakespeare s Henry IV, appears in Johnson s Dictionary under channel, v offers an interesting early precedent.5 Nevertheless, the attempt to locate a langscape of eighteenth- century con¨ict whether with reference to its material culture...