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"Marshall and Poole's two new volumes, ""Victorian Shakespeare (Volume 1): Theatre, Drama, Performance"" and ""Victorian Shakespeare (Volume 2): Literature and Culture"", are combined in this discounted two pack offer. Volume 1 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. Volume 2 looks at what the Victorians thought of Shakespeare, through close examinations of works by leading 19th century novelists, poets and critics including Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, Tennyson, Browning and Ruskin."

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Author:   Gail Marshall ,  Adrian Poole ,  S. Well ,  N. Auerbach
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9781403907912

ISBN 10:   1403907919
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   01 December 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

VOLUME 1: - Foreword; S.Wells - Introduction; G.Marshall - 'Shakespeare and the 1832 Select Committee on Dramatic Literature'; J.Swindells - 'Shakespeare and the Wars of the Playbills'; K.Newey - 'Counterfeit Presentments': Illustrating Shakespeare and Performance; P.Holland - 'Shakespeare Mad'; R.W.Schoch - Lisa Merrill, 'Acting Like a Man: National Identity, Homoerotics, and Shakespearean Criticism in the Nineteenth-Century American Press'; L.Merrill - 'Immigrant Shakespeares'; J.Moody - 'Ibsen's Pretenders and Victorian Shakespeare'; S.Jan - 'As They Liked It: Shakespearean Comedy Goes European'; I-S.Ewbank - 'Touchstone for the time: Victorians in the Forest of Arden'; R.Foulkes - 'Recognising Difference: 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 - - VOLUME 2: - Foreword; N.Auerbach - Introduction; A.Poole - 'Othello Redux': Scott's Kenilworth and the trickiness of race on the nineteenth-century stage; D.Henderson - Othello, Ornamentalism and The White Man's Burden; J.Glavin - 'Dickens and Hamlet'; J.John - Shakespeare at the Great Exhibition of 1851; C.Pettitt - Implicit and Explicit Reason: George Eliot and Shakespeare; P.Davis - 'Where did she get hold of that?' Shakespeare in The Tragic Muse; P.Horne - Wise Saws and Victorian Instances: Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Allusion; C.Decker - Shakespeare's Weeds: Tennyson, Elegy and Allusion; R.Douglas-Fairhurst - 'The Names': Robert Browning's 'Shaksperean Show'; D.Karlin - Mary Cowden Clarke: Marriage, Gender and the Victorian Woman Critic of Shakespeare; A.Thompson & S.Roberts - Shakespeare, the Actress and the Prostitute: Professional Respectability and Private Shame in George Vandenhoff's Leaves from an Actor's Notebook; P.Aebischer - 'The clue of Shakespearian power over me': Ruskin, Shakespeare, and Influence; F.O'Gorman - Index

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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 is 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 Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation (1995). -

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