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

The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theatre. By Katherine West Scheil. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2003. Pp. 1 + 333. $55.00.

The title says it all: The Taste of the Town is a study of the way "taste" in the Restoration and eighteenth century affected the adaptation of Shakespeare's comedies. The book looks at current events, at musical fashions, at popular actors and at editions, considering how each dictated the way "Shakespeare" was modified for performance. The conclusion, repeatedly and consistently illustrated in this scholarly and serious volume, is that Shakespeare's texts provided little more than the raw material ...

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