Shakespeare's Reputation: A Historical Study to the End of the Eighteenth Century

Bc. Jana Wendroff

Master's thesis

Abstract:

Tématem této diplomové práce je popsat a komentovat vývoj reputace Williama Shakespeara od doby kdy ještě žil a tvořil až do konce 18. století. Tato studie je rozdělena do čtyř hlavních částí: reputace do roku 1623, do doby obrození, v době obrození a reputace v 18. století, kdy už můžeme hovořit o Shakespearovi jako o ikoně všech dob.

Abstract:

The present study aims to describe and comment on the historical course of Shakespeare's reputation from his lifetime to the close of the eighteenth century. The study is divided into four main parts: Shakespeare's reputation to 1623 and the First Folio; his reputation from the First Folio to the Restoration; his reputation in Restoration; and his reputation in the eighteenth century, when the terms were firmly in place that led over the next two hundred years to his being in our own time not just a literary titan, but a cultural hero and global icon.

Keywords

reputation, editing, popularity, theater history, school cirriculum, critical standing, burlesques and parodies, myth.

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 14. 12. 2009

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 3. 2. 2010
• Supervisor: Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.

Masaryk University

Faculty of Education

Master programme / field:
Teacher Training for Primary and Lower Secondary Schools / Lower Secondary School and Language School Teacher Training in English Language