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Zusatztext '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 Informationen zum Autor NINA AUERBACH John Welsh Centennial Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USAJEAN CHOTHIA Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge and Senior Lecturer in English, Cambridge University, UKINGA-STINA EWBANK Professor Emeritus of English Literature, University of Leeds, UKRICHARD FOULKES Reader in the Department of English, University of Leicester, UKPETER HOLLAND McMeel Family Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Department of Film, Television and Theatre, University of Notre Dame, USASARA JAN Teaches for the Open University and Southampton University.LISA MERRILL Professor of Performance Studies, Hofstra University, Hempstead, USA and Visiting Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USAJANE MOODY Lecturer in English and Related Literature at the University of York, UKKATHERINE NEWEY Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies, Lancaster University, UKRICHARD W. SCHOCH Reader in Drama and Theatre History, Queen Mary, University of London, UKJOHN STOKES Professor of Modern British Literature, Department of English, King's College London, UKJULIA SWINDELLS Senior Lecturer in English, Drama and Education and one of the Directors of English at Homerton College Klappentext Victorian Shakespeare (Volume 1): Theatre, Drama, Performance ranges widely across the variety of Victorian theatrical spaces and forms in examining the ways in which the production of Shakespeare fundamentally informs the changing nature and status of the Victorian theatre. It considers the performance spaces of the legitimate theatre, but also looks at burlesques and parodies, the cultural and political spaces of the 1832 Select Committee on Dramatic Literature, the artistic realm of Shakespeare illustrations and theatre posters, and Shakespeare's presence in nineteenth-century Europe and America. Zusammenfassung Victorian Shakespeare (Volume 1): Theatre, Drama, Performance ranges widely across the variety of Victorian theatrical spaces and forms in examining the ways in which the production of Shakespeare fundamentally informs the changing nature and status of the Victorian theatre. It considers the performance spaces of the legitimate theatre, but also looks at burlesques and parodies, the cultural and political spaces of the 1832 Select Committee on Dramatic Literature, the artistic realm of Shakespeare illustrations and theatre posters, and Shakespeare's presence in nineteenth-century Europe and America. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Foreword; S.Wells Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors References Introduction; G.Marshall Shakespeare and the Wars of the Playbills; K.Newey 'Behold the swelling scene!' Shakespeare and the 1832 Select Committee; J.Swindells Performing Shakespeare in Print: Narrative in Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Shakespeares; P.Holland Shakespeare Mad; R.W.Schoch Acting Like a Man: National Identity, Homoerotics, and Shakespearean Criticism in the Nineteenth-Century American Press; L.Merrill Shakespeare and the Immigrants: Nationhood, Psychology and Xenophobia on the Nineteenth-Century Stage; J.Moody 'At the Side of Shakespeare': Ibsen's The Pretenders and Victorian Shakespeare; S.Jan As They Liked It: Shakespearean Comedy Goes Continental; I-S.Ewbank Touchstone for the times: Victorians in the Forest of Arden; R.Foulkes Varying Authenticities: Poel, Tree and Late Victorian Shakespeare; J.Chothia 'Shopping in Byzantium': Oscar Wilde as Shakespeare Critic; J.Stokes Perturbed Spirits: Victorian Actors and Immortality; N.Auerbach Index...
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List of Illustrations Foreword; S.Wells Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors References Introduction; G.Marshall Shakespeare and the Wars of the Playbills; K.Newey 'Behold the swelling scene!' Shakespeare and the 1832 Select Committee; J.Swindells Performing Shakespeare in Print: Narrative in Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Shakespeares; P.Holland Shakespeare Mad; R.W.Schoch Acting Like a Man: National Identity, Homoerotics, and Shakespearean Criticism in the Nineteenth-Century American Press; L.Merrill Shakespeare and the Immigrants: Nationhood, Psychology and Xenophobia on the Nineteenth-Century Stage; J.Moody 'At the Side of Shakespeare': Ibsen's The Pretenders and Victorian Shakespeare; S.Jan As They Liked It: Shakespearean Comedy Goes Continental; I-S.Ewbank Touchstone for the times: Victorians in the Forest of Arden; R.Foulkes Varying Authenticities: Poel, Tree and Late Victorian Shakespeare; J.Chothia 'Shopping in Byzantium': Oscar Wilde as Shakespeare Critic; J.Stokes Perturbed Spirits: Victorian Actors and Immortality; N.Auerbach Index
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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
