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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 27
IS  - 42
T2  - Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, and Performance
SP  - 15-29
ID  - bbbo422
T1  - "The Institutionalization of Shakespeare Studies in the United Kingdom"
AU  - Sawyer, Robert
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2026
DO  - 10.18778/2083-8530.27.02
LA  - English
AB  - Describes critical approaches of major Shakespearean scholars active around 1920-1940 in the United Kingdom, including I. A. Richards, William Empson, Arthur Quiller-Couch, F. R. Leavis, and Caroline Spurgeon. Shows how these scholars, the formation of named research chairs at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, and the Newboldt Report, led to Shakespeare's central place in British English departments and literary criticism. English summary, 15.
ER  -