Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 38,65 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.
Author : Stuart Sillars
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0199668086
Shakespeare and the Victorians explores the place of Shakespeare in Victorian culture, and shows how the plays and the man became central to all levels of Victorian life and thought.
Author : Charles LaPorte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 28,61 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.
Author : William David Shaw
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN : 9780813935447
In The Ghost behind the Masks, W. David Shaw traces Shakespeare's influence on nine Victorian poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Swinburne, Arthur Hugh Clough, and George Meredith. Often, he writes, the transparency of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian poets and the degree of their engagement with Shakespeare exist in inverse ratio. Instead of imitating a play by Shakespeare or merely quoting his lines, a Victorian poet may embrace more elusive elements of rhetoric and style, adapting them to his or her own ends. Shaw argues that the most Shakespearean attribute of the Victorian poets is not their addiction to any particular trope or figure of speech but their reticence, the classical restraint of their great monologues, and their sudden descent from grandeur to simplicity. He explores such topics as man-made law versus natural right, Stoic fatalism versus self-reliance, and the sanity of lunatics, lovers, and poets versus the madness of commonplace minds.
Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416541632
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Author : Charles LaPorte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 27,3 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?
Author : Anthony James West
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198187684
This major reference book for Shakespeare scholars and bibliographers is in the second part of the story of "the greatest book" in the English language. Listing 228 copies of the First Folio, the Census gives concise descriptions of each, covering condition, special features, provenance, and binding. It traces the search for copies, deals with doubtful identifications, describes the tests for inclusion, and presents details of missing copies.
Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521515238
The first full-length study of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian women writers, actresses and readers.
Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 30,40 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.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 28,3 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.
