is a Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast. As well as working on the AHRC-funded project ‘Performing Restoration Shakespeare’, he is writing a monograph on dreams and sleep in Shakespeare’s plays for Palgrave Macmillan.
How Restoration playwrights reshaped Shakespeare’s plays to fit changing political norms and theatrical tastes
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Claude Fretz
Restoration Shakespeare was a complex theatrical experience that integrated song, music, dance, and acting; indeed, music and dance, alongside stage machines and movable scenes, were central to the success of Restoration theatre more generally.
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