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Shakespeare for the People: Working Class Readers, 1800–1900 Reissue Edition

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Beginning by mapping out an overview of the expansion of elementary education in Britain across the nineteenth century, Andrew Murphy explores the manner in which Shakespeare acquired a working-class readership. He traces developments in publishing which meant that editions of Shakespeare became ever cheaper as the century progressed. Drawing on more than a hundred published and manuscript autobiographical texts, the book examines the experiences of a wide range of working-class readers. Particular attention is focused on a set of radical readers for whom Shakespeare's work had a special political resonance. Murphy explores the reasons why the playwright's working-class readership began to fall away from the turn of the century, noting the competition he faced from professional sports, the cinema, radio and television. The book concludes by asking whether it matters that, in our own time, Shakespeare no longer commands a general popular audience.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0521176557
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0521176552
  3. Edition
    Reissue
  4. Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
  5. Publication date
    September 30, 2010
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    5.98 x 0.64 x 9.02 inches
  8. Print length
    256 pages
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"With this book, Murphy makes a solid, unique contribution to several fields of study...Recommended.
- A. DiMatteo, New York Institute of Technology, -Choice

"Andrew Murphy is a Shakespearian and a scholar of Renaissance literature who has bridged the gap between his usual stamping-ground of the early modern period and the very modern period of his work on Seamus Heaney (2000), with this study of nineteenth-century readership and literacy." -Kate Macdonald, University of Ghent, English Text Construction

"Murphy's book is to be lauded as a much-needed exploration of a hitherto neglected segment of the mass readership of Shakespeare that emerged in the nineteenth century. It is an invaluable work that reveals much new material while tacitly inviting its readers to explore further."
-Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

Book Description

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

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; Reissue edition (September 30, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521176557
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521176552
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 0.64 x 9.02 inches

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