Shakespeare for the People: Working Class Readers, 1800-1900 »

Andrew Murphy is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.

Explores the manner in which Shakespeare acquired a working-class readership during the nineteenth century.

List of illustrations

1 The educational context 28

2 The publishing context 58

3 Reading 95

4 Political Shakespeare 135

5 Decline and fall 162

Afterword 198

Appendix 1 Autobiographers by year of birth 207

Appendix 2 Autobiographers listed alphabetically 218

Bibliography 221

Index 237