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Victorian Shakespeare

Volume 2: Literature and Culture

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Gail Marshall

    1. School of English, University of Leeds, UK

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  2. Adrian Poole

    1. University of Cambridge, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Adrian Poole
    Pages 1-13

  3. Othello Redux?: Scott’s Kenilworth and the Trickiness of ‘Race’ on the Nineteenth-century Stage

    • Diana E. Henderson
    Pages 14-29

  4. ‘To Make the Situation Natural’: Othello at Mid-Century

    • John Glavin
    Pages 30-45

  5. Dickens and Hamlet

    • Juliet John
    Pages 46-60

  6. Shakespeare at the Great Exhibition of 1851

    • Clare Pettitt
    Pages 61-83

  7. Implicit and Explicit Reason: George Eliot and Shakespeare

    • Philip Davis
    Pages 84-99

  8. ‘Where Did She Get Hold of That?’ Shakespeare in Henry James’s The Tragic Muse

    • Philip Home
    Pages 100-113

  9. Shakespeare’s Weeds: Tennyson, Elegy and Allusion

    • Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
    Pages 114-130

  10. Shakespeare and the Death of Tennyson

    • Christopher Decker
    Pages 131-149

  11. ‘The Names’: Robert Browning’s ‘Shaksperean Show’

    • Danny Karlin
    Pages 150-169

  12. Mary Cowden Clarke: Marriage, Gender and the Victorian Woman Critic of Shakespeare

    • Ann Thompson, Sasha Roberts
    Pages 170-189

  13. Shakespeare, the Actress and the Prostitute: Professional Respectability and Private Shame in George Vandenhoff’s Leaves from an Actor’s Notebook

    • Pascale Aebischer
    Pages 190-202

  14. ‘The Clue of Shakespearian Power Over Me’: Ruskin, Shakespeare, and Influence

    • Francis O’Gorman
    Pages 203-218

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 219-228
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About this book

What did the Victorians think of Shakespeare? The twelve essays gathered here offer some answers, through close examination of works by leading nineteenth-century novelists, poets and critics including Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, Tennyson, Browning and Ruskin. Shakespeare provided the Victorians with ways of thinking about the authority of the past, about the emergence of a new mass culture, about the relations between artistic and industrial production, about the nature of creativity, about racial and sexual difference, and about individual and national identity.

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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

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of English, University of Leeds, UK

    Gail Marshall

  • University of Cambridge, UK

    Adrian Poole

About the editors

PASCALE AEBISCHER Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Leicester, UK PHILIP DAVIS Professor in the English Department, University of Liverpool, UK CHRISTOPHER DECKER Assistant Professor of English, Boston University, USA ROBERT DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK JOHN GLAVIN Professor of English, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA DIANA E. HENDERSON Associate Professor of Literature, M.I.T PHILIP HORNE Professor of English, University College London, UK JULIET JOHN Senior Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool, UK DANIEL KARLIN Professor of English, University College London, UK FRANCIS O'GORMAN Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Leeds, UK CLARE PETTITT Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, UK SASHA ROBERTS Lecturer in English, University of Kent, UK ANN THOMPSON Professor of English Language and Literature, King's College, London, UK.

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