A Supplement to Public Laws
Arthur Murphy, David Garrick, and Hamlet, with Alterations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4550494 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard W Schoch, Richard Schoch (0000-0001-8116-0783, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-32 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tj.2005.0031 |
| OpenAlex | W2014580227 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
The career of Arthur Murphy (1727-1805) bears exceptional witness not only to the precarious financial and legal condition of dramatic authors in Georgian England, but also-and more importantly-to the theatre's capacity to reconceive the author's position within the burgeoning culture of print. Murphy, who was both a playwright and a practicing barrister, spent his entire career trying to redefine the professional status of dramatic authors. He failed in the law; he succeeded in the drama. The unlikely vehicle for his success was Hamlet, with Alterations (1772)-a play neither published nor performed in its author's lifetime. The play, a parody of Garrick's radical adaptation of Hamlet, succeeded not in changing the law but in changing the discourse about the relationship between a dramatic author and the commodity of a dramatic text
Art · Art history · Drama · Georgian · HAMLET (protein complex · Literature · Performance art · Political science · Sociology · Witness · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |