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"Bring Out Your Dead!": Cashing In On Shakespeare In The First Folio, John M. Bowers
"Bring Out Your Dead!": Cashing In On Shakespeare In The First Folio, John M. Bowers
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William Shakespeare wrote his plays for box-office profits at the theater, not for a reading public. When his old colleagues John Hemings and Henry Condell published his plays seven years after his death, they too were looking for financial profit and "packaged" the dramas -- as well as the dramatist himself -- to boost income by appealing to a new market of readers, thus making Shakespeare the subject of literary studies ever since.
21st Century Shakespeare, Evelyn Gajowski
21st Century Shakespeare, Evelyn Gajowski
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Why do Shakespeare's texts resonate so powerfully for us at the outset of the twenty-first century? Why is Shakespeare more popular today than ever before? What are the various ways in which we consume Shakespeare's texts 400 years after he produced them? Professor Gajowski aims to suggest answers to these questions by elucidating the current state of the art of analyzing Shakespeare