![]() ![]() This essay offers a reading of Keith Dewhurst's The World Turned Upside Down, an adaptation of Hill's work performed by the Cottesloe Company at the National Theatre for 3 weeks in November and December 1978. In the mid-to-late 1970s, it also became a touchstone for dramatists and theater practitioners seeking to recover a sense of Britain's radical past, eager to examine the ways in which historic patterns of resistance, revolutionary politics and popular rebellion might speak to a later age of social unrest. As impressive as such sales figures are for a work of seventeenth-century history, they tell only part of the tale of the popularity of the book. ![]() Issued in paperback in 1975, it sold 46,000 copies in that single year a decade later, it continued to sell 3,000 per annum. ![]() When Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down was first published in 1972, it was an immediate popular success. ![]()
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