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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, for the first time, 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.Examining the lives and experiences of a wide range of working-class readers in the nineteenth century, Andrew Murphy explores the ways in which even the poorest members of society were able to become readers of Shakespeare. He asks whether it matters that Shakespeare has lost his popular audience today.
| Book: | Shakespeare For The People: Working Class Readers, 1800-1900 |
| Author: | Andrew Murphy |
| ISBN: | 0521861772 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780521861779 |
| Binding: | Hardbound |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-03-01 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Number of Pages: | 258 |
| Language: | English |
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