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title: 'David Garrick’s Shakespeare and the Emergence of a National Culture :guardsman:'
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# David Garrick’s Shakespeare and the Emergence of a National Culture :guardsman:

### Arc of the class
### Questions to Consider

_Question_
What were the effects of the Stage Licensing Act of 1737? How was the 1737 act amended by the Theatres Act of 1843?

_Question_
How did theater contribute to thinking about national identity in 18th-century England? How did it help to promote notions of national distinction?

_Question_
Why did the plays of Shakespeare enjoy such prominence in England during the 18th century?

_Question_
How do 18th-century notions of “nature” and the “natural” vary from notions of “nature” and the “natural” today?