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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company
. Arden Shakespeare. By
Amanda Eubanks
Winkler
Richard
Schoch
.
London
:
Bloomsbury
,
2022
. Illus. Pp.
xvi
+
218
.
Performing Restoration Shakespeare
. Edited by
Amanda Eubanks
Winkler
Claude
Fretz
Richard
Schoch
.
Cambridge
:
Cambridge University Press
,
2023
. Illus. Pp.
xxiv
+
220
.
Alexander Paulsson Lash akp.email@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic
Shakespeare Quarterly, quae020, https://doi.org/10.1093/sq/quae020
Published:
14 June 2024
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William Davenant played a central role in the development of English theater throughout the seventeenth century. As playwright, theater manager, and promoter, he was active before, during, and after the period from 1642 to 1660, when regular commercial performance was banned. Our scholarly fields are otherwise profoundly shaped by this rupture in theatrical activity, with studies of the prewar stage and of Restoration drama pursued separately. Davenant stands out as a figure who straddles this historical divide, allowing us to see both continuities and changes in the theatrical culture of Shakespeare and his contemporaries when it was reconstituted after eighteen years. Like his fellow theater manager Thomas Killigrew, founder of the rival King’s Company, Davenant turned to Shakespeare’s generation for a source of dramatic material. Where Killigrew appears to have staged earlier plays with relatively little textual intervention, however, Davenant pushed this heritage in new directions. Embracing the emphasis on musical performance and spectacular staging that he was accustomed to from his work on the Caroline court masque, he rewrote a number of Shakespeare’s plays: his 1662 Law Against Lovers was a conflation of Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing, for example, and his 1664 adaptation of Macbeth added further songs for the witches and expanded Lady Macduff into a virtuous counterpoint to Lady Macbeth.
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