It was very quickly re-cerealised in magazines with various changes to make it more popular. By February 1844 or so, two months after it had come out, there were eight theatrical productions. He went to some of the theatrical performances and seems to have quite enjoyed them. So that very, very quickly, it became a text that was shared by large parts of the culture that couldn't actually afford. There's an appetite to re-invention of this time of warmth in what was seen as increasingly darkening times.

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