Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 74
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey 74
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Whither Goest Thou, Public Shakespearian?
- Teaching Shakespeare in a Time of Hate
- Playful Pedagogy and Social Justice: Digital Embodiment in the Shakespeare Classroom
- Digital Resources, Teaching Online and Evolving International Pedagogic Practice
- Teaching Shakespeare with Performance Pedagogy in an Online Environment
- PPE for Shakespearians: Pandemic, Performance and Education
- ‘In India’: Shakespeare and Prison in Kolkata and Mysore
- Shakespeare for Cops
- Younger Generations and Empathic Communication: Learning to Feel in Another Language with Shakespeare at the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre in Rome
- Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: An Imperative of ‘New Learning’
- Forging a Republic of Letters: Shakespeare, Politics and a New University in Early Twentieth-Century Portugal
- Cultural Inclusivity and Student Shakespeare Performances in Late-Colonial Singapore, 1950–1959
- Using Performance to Strengthen the Higher Education Sector: Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Vietnam
- Counterpublic Shakespeares in the American Education Marketplace
- Taking Love’s Labour’s Lost Seriously
- The Thyestean Language of English Revenge Tragedy on the University and Popular Stages
- Going to School with(out) Shakespeare: Conversations with Edward’s Boys
- Intimacy and Schadenfreude in Reports of Problems in Early Modern Productions
- The True Tragedy as a Yorkist Play? Problems in Textual Transmission
- Henry VIII and Henry IX: Unlived Lives and Re-written Histories
- ‘And His Works in a Glass Case’: The Bard in the Garden and the Legacy of the Shakespeare Ladies Club
- Hamlet and John Austen’s Devil with a (Dis)pleasing Shape
- Shakespeare, #MeToo and his New Contemporaries
- ‘While Memory Holds a Seat in this Distracted Globe’: A Look Back at the Arden Shakespeare Third Series (1995–2020)
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2020
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- ABSTRACTS OF ARTICLES IN SHAKESPEARE SURVEY 74
- Index
‘And His Works in a Glass Case’: The Bard in the Garden and the Legacy of the Shakespeare Ladies Club
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 August 2021
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Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 74
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey 74
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Whither Goest Thou, Public Shakespearian?
- Teaching Shakespeare in a Time of Hate
- Playful Pedagogy and Social Justice: Digital Embodiment in the Shakespeare Classroom
- Digital Resources, Teaching Online and Evolving International Pedagogic Practice
- Teaching Shakespeare with Performance Pedagogy in an Online Environment
- PPE for Shakespearians: Pandemic, Performance and Education
- ‘In India’: Shakespeare and Prison in Kolkata and Mysore
- Shakespeare for Cops
- Younger Generations and Empathic Communication: Learning to Feel in Another Language with Shakespeare at the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre in Rome
- Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: An Imperative of ‘New Learning’
- Forging a Republic of Letters: Shakespeare, Politics and a New University in Early Twentieth-Century Portugal
- Cultural Inclusivity and Student Shakespeare Performances in Late-Colonial Singapore, 1950–1959
- Using Performance to Strengthen the Higher Education Sector: Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Vietnam
- Counterpublic Shakespeares in the American Education Marketplace
- Taking Love’s Labour’s Lost Seriously
- The Thyestean Language of English Revenge Tragedy on the University and Popular Stages
- Going to School with(out) Shakespeare: Conversations with Edward’s Boys
- Intimacy and Schadenfreude in Reports of Problems in Early Modern Productions
- The True Tragedy as a Yorkist Play? Problems in Textual Transmission
- Henry VIII and Henry IX: Unlived Lives and Re-written Histories
- ‘And His Works in a Glass Case’: The Bard in the Garden and the Legacy of the Shakespeare Ladies Club
- Hamlet and John Austen’s Devil with a (Dis)pleasing Shape
- Shakespeare, #MeToo and his New Contemporaries
- ‘While Memory Holds a Seat in this Distracted Globe’: A Look Back at the Arden Shakespeare Third Series (1995–2020)
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2020
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- ABSTRACTS OF ARTICLES IN SHAKESPEARE SURVEY 74
- Index
Summary
This easily overlooked passage within a somewhat obscure volume describes what may very well be the first private shrine to Shakespeare, an indication of the long-departed playwright’s elevated status in this particular household.
The household in question was that of the 4th Earl of Shaftesbury and his wife, the Countess, Susanna Ashley-Cooper, foundress and leader of the Shakespeare Ladies Club. This group of women, in the late 1730s and through the turn of the decade, was responsible for petitioning and persuading London theatre managers to stage Shakespeare’s plays more frequently and revive many of his dramatic works that had not been performed since the Restoration. Now that the theatre was a commercial venture, no longer sustained by royal patronage, it was common for influential aristocratic persons to request (or ‘bespeak’) performances of particular plays.
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- Shakespeare Survey 74Shakespeare and Education, pp. 298 - 316Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021