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Article: Popular Theater
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Popular Theater
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Mass Appeal.
William Shakespeare, predicted one critic in 1882,
“
is destined to become the Shakespeare of the college and university, and even more the Shakespeare of private and select culture. Nor will he ever be perfectly himself and perfectly at home anywhere else.
”
Throughout much of the nineteenth century Shakespeare had belonged to every man, woman, and child
—
regardless of social class. Some theater companies presented
“
traditional
”
interpretations of the bard; others adapted his work to comic, even bawdy purposes.
Richard III
might be performed as
Bad Dicky, Romeo and Juliet
as
Roamy-E-Owe and Julie-Ate
. By the 1880s
...
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