This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.

This book establishes the significance of actresses, female playgoers and women critics in shaping Shakespeare's burgeoning reputation in the eighteenth century

Shakespeare's plays were not always the inviolable texts they are almost universally considered to be today. The Restoration and eighteenth century committed wh

An account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts into books.

The eighteenth century has long been acknowledged as a pivotal period in Shakespeare's reception, transforming a playwright requiring 'improvement' into a natio