[PDF] Shakespeare In The Nineteenth Century eBook

Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521518245

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An illustrated collection of new essays with valuable reference material on the performance and reception of Shakespeare's plays.

Author : Charles LaPorte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108853463

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In the Victorian era, William Shakespeare's work was often celebrated as a sacred text: a sort of secular English Bible. Even today, Shakespeare remains a uniquely important literary figure. Yet Victorian criticism took on religious dimensions that now seem outlandish in retrospect. Ministers wrote sermons based upon Shakespearean texts and delivered them from pulpits in Christian churches. Some scholars crafted devotional volumes to compare his texts directly with the Bible's. Still others created Shakespearean societies in the faith that his inspiration was not like that of other playwrights. Charles LaPorte uses such examples from the Victorian cult of Shakespeare to illustrate the complex relationship between religion, literature and secularization. His work helps to illuminate a curious but crucial chapter in the history of modern literary studies in the West, as well as its connections with Biblical scholarship and textual criticism.

Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521515238

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The first full-length study of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian women writers, actresses and readers.

Author : Krystyna Kujawińska-Courtney
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Shakespeare, William
ISBN :

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"These essays show how Shakespeare as a cultural commodity was imported, appropriated, and exploited in countries around the world in the 19th century. Essays are grouped by the type of appropriation they emphasize: translations and adaptations, performances and theater, scholarship and criticism, or inspirations for visual arts and creative writing."

Author : Nigel Cliff
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :

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Author : Suddhaseel Sen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000206068

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Shakespeare in the World traces the reception histories and adaptations of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century, when his works became well-known to non-Anglophone communities in both Europe and colonial India. Sen provides thorough and searching examinations of nineteenth-century theatrical, operatic, novelistic, and prose adaptations that are still read and performed, in order to argue that, crucial to the transmission and appeal of Shakespeare’s plays were the adaptations they generated in a wide range of media. These adaptations, in turn, made the absorption of the plays into different "national" cultural traditions possible, contributing to the development of "nationalist cosmopolitanisms" in the receiving cultures. Sen challenges the customary reading of Shakespeare reception in terms of "hegemony" and "mimicry," showing instead important parallels in the practices of Shakespeare adaptation in Europe and colonial India. Shakespeare in the World strikes a fine balance between the Bard’s iconicity and his colonial and post-colonial afterlives, and is an important contribution to Shakespeare studies.

Author : Alina Borkowska-Rychlewska
Publisher : Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Dramatic music
ISBN : 9783631778609

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The author of the book analyses selected 19th-century operas based on Shakespeare's plays from the perspective of their relations to the literature, aesthetics and philosophy of the Romantic period. The texts discussed here include Verdi's Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff, Rossini's Otello, Halévy's The Tempest, Gounod's Romeo and Juliet and Thomas's Hamlet. The study aims to indicate diverse traces of the Romantic interpretation of Shakespeare's works in the history of the 19th-century opera. Individual chapters present the librettos of the selected operas, analysed in the context of Shakespeare's plays and their 19th-century reception, reconstructed on the basis of 19th-century historic-literary texts (of, among others, A. W. Schlegel, L. Tieck and V. Hugo), critical studies and press articles. The analyses conducted in the book succeed in presenting the evolution of the phenomenon of Romantic Shakespeareanism in the 19th-century opera theatre.

Author : Christopher R. Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1289 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0190945141

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"This compendium reflects the latest international research into the many and various uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, the contributors' lines of enquiry extending from the Bard's own time to the present day. The coverage is global in its scope, and includes studies of Shakespeare-related music in countries as diverse as China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and the Soviet Union, as well as the more familiar Anglophone musical and theatrical traditions of the UK and USA. The range of genres surveyed by the book's team of distinguished authors embraces music for theatre, opera, ballet, musicals, the concert hall, and film, in addition to Shakespeare's ongoing afterlives in folk music, jazz, and popular music. The authors take a range of diverse approaches: some investigate the evidence for performative practices in the Early Modern and later eras, while others offer detailed analyses of representative case studies, situating these firmly in their cultural contexts, or reflecting on the political and sociological ramifications of the music. As a whole, the volume provides a wide-ranging compendium of cutting-edge scholarship engaging with an extraordinarily rich body of music without parallel in the history of the global arts"--