The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theater.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-05

Bookmark this article Print this article Link to this article Email this article Digg It! Add to del.icio.us RSS

COPYRIGHT 2005 Modern Humanities Research Association

The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theater. By KATHERINE WEST SCHEIL. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 333 pp. 44 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5537-2.

The Taste of the Town charts the adaptation and reception of Shakespearian comedies from the Restoration to the Licensing Act of 1737. Katherine West Scheil's detailed study demonstrates that all the adaptations from the period--whether the y introduced music, dance, or visual spectacle to the Shakespearian original, whether they generated topical humour or provided a star vehicle--shared...

Read the full article for free courtesy of your local library.