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...
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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. Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Contributors -- A Note on References -- Introduction -- 1 Othello Redux?: Scott's Kenilworth and the Trickiness of 'Race' on the Nineteenth-century Stage -- 2 'To Make the Situation Natural': Othello at Mid-Century -- 3 Dickens and Hamlet -- 4 Shakespeare at the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- 5 Implicit and Explicit Reason: George Eliot and Shakespeare -- 6 'Where Did She Get Hold of That?' Shakespeare in Henry James's The Tragic Muse -- 7 Shakespeare's Weeds: Tennyson, Elegy and Allusion -- 8 Shakespeare and the Death of Tennyson -- 9 'The Names': Robert Browning's 'Shaksperean Show' -- 10 Mary Cowden Clarke: Marriage, Gender and the Victorian Woman Critic of Shakespeare -- 11 Shakespeare, the Actress and the Prostitute: Professional Respectability and Private Shame in George Vandenhoff's Leaves from an Actor's Notebook -- 12 'The Clue of Shakespearian Power over Me': Ruskin, Shakespeare, and Influence -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
