Overview

Victorian Shakespeare (Volume 1): Theatre, Drama, Performance ranges widely across the variety of Victorian theatrical spaces and forms in examining the ways in which the production of Shakespeare fundamentally informs the changing nature and status of the Victorian theatre. It considers the performance spaces of the legitimate theatre, but also looks at burlesques and parodies, the cultural and political spaces of the 1832 Select Committee on Dramatic Literature, the artistic realm of Shakespeare illustrations and theatre posters, and Shakespeare's presence in nineteenth-century Europe and America.

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Author:   G. Marshall ,  A. Poole
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2003 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.415kg
ISBN:  

9781403911162

ISBN 10:   1403911169
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   14 October 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword; S.Wells Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors References Introduction; G.Marshall Shakespeare and the Wars of the Playbills; K.Newey 'Behold the swelling scene!' Shakespeare and the 1832 Select Committee; J.Swindells Performing Shakespeare in Print: Narrative in Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Shakespeares; P.Holland Shakespeare Mad; R.W.Schoch Acting Like a Man: National Identity, Homoerotics, and Shakespearean Criticism in the Nineteenth-Century American Press; L.Merrill Shakespeare and the Immigrants: Nationhood, Psychology and Xenophobia on the Nineteenth-Century Stage; J.Moody 'At the Side of Shakespeare': Ibsen's The Pretenders and Victorian Shakespeare; S.Jan As They Liked It: Shakespearean Comedy Goes Continental; I-S.Ewbank Touchstone for the times: Victorians in the Forest of Arden; R.Foulkes Varying Authenticities: Poel, Tree and Late Victorian Shakespeare; J.Chothia 'Shopping in Byzantium': Oscar Wilde as Shakespeare Critic; J.Stokes Perturbed Spirits: Victorian Actors and Immortality; N.Auerbach Index

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'Victorian Shakespeare is not free from a tendency to make history a refuge from judgement, but it does richly advance our understanding of how Shakespeare made us and how we have made him.' - Times Literary Supplement</p>

'Victorian Shakespeare is not free from a tendency to make history a refuge from judgement, but it does richly advance our understanding of how Shakespeare made us and how we have made him.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Victorian Shakespeare is not free from a tendency to make history a refuge from judgement, but it does richly advance our understanding of how Shakespeare made us and how we have made him.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Victorian Shakespeare is not free from a tendency to make history a refuge from judgement, but it does richly advance our understanding of how Shakespeare made us and how we have made him.' - Times Literary Supplement

Author Information

GAIL MARSHALL is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Actresses on the Victorian Stage (1998) and Victorian Fiction (2002), and the editor of George Eliot (2003). She is currently writing a monograph on the relationship between Victorian women and Shakespeare. ADRIAN POOLE is Reader in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College. His books include Tragedy: Shakespeare and the Greek Example (1987), Henry James (1991), and (co-edited with Jeremy Maule) The Ox

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