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David Taylor

is associate professor of English Literature at St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford, and a member of the R/18 Collective, an international group of scholars committed to working with theatre makers and researchers to re-activate the Restoration and 18th-century repertoire for the 21st century. David has written extensively about Shakespeare in the 18th century, most recently in his book The Politics of Parody: A Literary History of Caricature (Yale UP, 2018). In 2017 he curated the exhibition "Draw New Mischief: 250 Years of Shakespeare and Politics Cartoons" at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Strange Shakespeare: Shakespeare in the flesh and the beginnings of the biopic
Shakespeare and Beyond

Strange Shakespeare: Shakespeare in the flesh and the beginnings of the biopic

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Charles Somerset’s “Shakspeare’s Early Days” of 1829 was a prototype of the Shakespearean biopic and also a critique of the theatrical establishment.

Strange Shakespeare: Macbeth and the even weirder sisters
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Strange Shakespeare: Macbeth and the even weirder sisters

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Shakespeare’s witches haven’t always terrified audiences. For a century and more – from the late 17th to the early 19th centuries – actors played these parts for laughs. During the period in which Shakespeare became “the Bard”, the witches in…