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This chapter distinguishes two ways in which the authority of actors with regard to Shakespeare was articulated during the playwright's seventeenth-and eighteenth-century rise to the status of a national poet. From the reopening of the theatres to the early 1700s, actors appeared as apostles, handing down Shakespeare's intentions from generation to generation as part of an independent performance tradition. The career of David Garrick, from 1741 to 1776 was marked, however, with the claim that, rather than inheriting a connection to Shakespeare, this new star was Shakespeare reborn. Resurrection had replaced succession as a mode for articulating the actor's authority.
Author(s): Harriman-Smith J
Editor(s): Halsey, K; Vine A
Series Editor(s): Dobson, M; Callaghan, D
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Shakespeare and Authority: Citations, Conceptions and Constructions
Year: 2018
Pages: 249-264
Print publication date: 20/02/2018
Online publication date: 20/02/2018
Acceptance date: 24/10/2016
Series Title: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place Published: London
URL: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57853-2_12
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-57853-2_12
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781137578525