| Victorian Shakespeare: Volume 2: Literature and Culture 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Marshall, Gail (Author), Poole, Adrian (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403911177 ISBN-13: 9781403911179 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2003 Annotation: "Victorian Shakespeare (Volume 2): Literature and Culture" explores some of the responses to Shakespeare by leading nineteenth-century novelists, poets and critics including Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, Tennyson, Browning and Ruskin. Through certain key plays, especially "Hamlet" and "Othello," Shakespeare provided them 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, about individual and national identity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Shakespeare - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | Modern - General |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| LCCN: 2003046950 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.64" W x 8.82" (0.92 lbs) 228 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |