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Publisher : Usborne Books
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 9780794529970
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The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare
Charles LaPorte
Author : Charles LaPorte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108853463
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.
Victorian Shakespeare
Gail Marshall
Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 2003-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230504140
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.
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare
Charles LaPorte
Author : Charles LaPorte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1108496156
How and why did Victorian culture make Shakespeare into a literary deity and his work into a secular Bible?
Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals
Kathryn Prince
Author : Kathryn Prince
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1135896585
Based on extensive archival research, Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals offers an entirely new perspective on popular Shakespeare reception by focusing on articles published in Victorian periodicals. Shakespeare had already reached the apex of British culture in the previous century, becoming the national poet of the middle and upper classes, but during the Victorian era he was embraced by more marginal groups. If Shakespeare was sometimes employed as an instrument of enculturation, imposed on these groups, he was also used by them to resist this cultural hegemony.
The Shakespeare Revolution
J. L. Styan
Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 1983-04-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521273282
This is a succinct and finest history of Shakespeare studies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Shakespeare's Victorian Stage
Richard W. Schoch
Author : Richard W. Schoch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 1998-08-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521622813
This book explores the revivals of Shakespeare's history plays during the Victorian period, as staged by the famous actor-manager Charles Kean. Between 1852 and 1859, Kean produced celebrated productions of Henry V, Henry VIII, King John, Macbeth and Richard II, renowned for their unprecendented attention to antiquarian detail in sets, costumes, and properties (many of which are shown in the book's illustrations). These productions provided audiences with an unparalleled opportunity to participate in the Victorian obsession with history, especially of the medieval period. Using valuable primary sources, including promptbooks, scenic designs, costume sketches and contemporary reviews, Richard Schoch places mid-Victorian attitudes towards the theatre in the context of major intellectual and political movements of the age. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of theatre history, Shakespeare studies and Victorian culture.
Shakespeare And The Victorians
Adrian Poole
Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1408143720
Adrian Poole examines the Victorian's obsession with Shakespeare, his impact upon the era's consciousness, and the expression of this in their drama, novels and poetry. The book features detailed discussion of the interpretations and applications of Shakespeare by major figures such as Dickens and Hardy, Tennyson and Browning, as well as those less well-known.
Shakespeare and the Victorians
Stuart Sillars
Author : Stuart Sillars
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0191645087
OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. The book shows how the reception and remodelling of the works and the man directed the Victorian construction of identity, personal, national and aesthetic, as well as laying foundations that later Shakespeareans could continue, extend or reject. Shakespeare was one of the most pervasive intellectual, aesthetic, and social forces of the Victorian period, with the plays in print, performance, and as moral examples penetrating to every aspect of life in every social class and situation. Shakespeare and the Victorians offers an analytical survey of the main forms and paths of this presence. It begins with a discussion of the processes of editing and publishing the plays, embracing both cholarly and popular editions. It moves to consider performance styles, quoting original reviews to assess methods of acting and production. Music for the Shakespearean stage, now largely forgotten, is reassessed, as is the varied tradition of Shakespeare painting that extends far beyond the familiar images of the Pre-Raphaelites. Shakespearian themes dominate in the novel, especially the conflict between town and country and the changing status of women; poetry shows the power of Shakespeare in the use of iambic pentameter and the sonnet form. The plays are fragmented through the study of individual character and their use as moral compendia, and the search for 'Shakespeare the man' in biographies, portraiture and pilgrimages to the birthplace. A concluding chapter looks at the last two decades in terms of editing, performance, the renewed importance of the Sonnets, and new performance styles.
The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
William Shakespeare
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
"The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare is a gripping and intense drama that explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and the destructive consequences of violence. Set in ancient Rome, the play follows the tragic downfall of the noble general Titus Andronicus and his family as they become embroiled in a cycle of vengeance and bloodshed. At the heart of the story is the brutal conflict between Titus Andronicus and Tamora, Queen of the Goths, whose sons are executed by Titus as retribution for their crimes. In retaliation, Tamora and her lover, Aaron the Moor, orchestrate a series of heinous acts of revenge against Titus and his family, plunging them into a spiral of madness and despair. As the body count rises and the atrocities escalate, Titus is consumed by grief and rage, leading to a climactic showdown that culminates in a shocking and tragic conclusion. Along the way, Shakespeare explores themes of honor, justice, and the nature of humanity, offering a searing indictment of the cycle of violence and the capacity for cruelty that lies within us all.