Shakespeare And The Victorian Stage

Author : Richard Foulkes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521089531
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Victorian Stage written by Richard Foulkes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this book constitute a concerted account of the place of Shakespeare in the Victorian theatre and the cultural life of the country in the nineteenth century. They explore the changing styles of acting and staging used for Shakespeare's plays by Macready, Charles Kean, the Irvings, Ellen Terry and Beerbohm Tree, and examine Shakespeare's influence on Victorian dramatists (Sheridan Knowles, Albery and W.S. Gilbert) and the relationship between the stage and the allied arts of painting (David Scott, the Pre-Raphaelites and Alma-Tadema) and music (Sullivan). During Queen Victoria's reign Shakespeare's plays attracted new audiences from the court at Windsor to such rapidly expanding conurbations as Leicester and Sheffield. In France, Germany, Italy and the New World, Shakespeare effectively became an ambassador of Britain's growing power and influence. The book develops a fascinating and well-illustrated account of these changes.

Author : Richard W. Schoch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521622813
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Victorian Stage written by Richard W. Schoch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kathryn Prince
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135896577
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals written by Kathryn Prince and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alfred Darbyshire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Victorian Stage written by Alfred Darbyshire and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521515238
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Victorian Women written by Gail Marshall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian women writers, actresses and readers.

Author : Charles LaPorte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108853463
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare written by Charles LaPorte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230504140
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Shakespeare written by Gail Marshall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Stuart Sillars
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
ISBN 13 : 0199668086
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Victorians written by Stuart Sillars and published by Oxford Shakespeare Topics. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alan R. Young
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039110780
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punch and Shakespeare in the Victorian Era written by Alan R. Young and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English humour magazine Punch, or the London Charivari, which first appeared in 1841, quickly became something of a national institution with a large and multi-layered readership. Though comic in tone, Punch was deeply serious about upholding high literary and artistic standards, about dealing with serious subject-matter, and about attempting to nurture its readers' appreciation of the national drama and of Shakespeare's plays in particular. The author's detailed examination of Punch's constant advocacy of Shakespeare reveals telling new evidence concerning the ubiquitous presence of Shakespeare within Victorian culture. New research in the Punch archives and elsewhere also reveals the identities of many of the Punch authors and artists. The author shows how those who worked for Punch often subsumed their collective identities within the single persona of Mr. Punch, a fictional creation who repeatedly presents himself in both texts and graphics as a close friend and admirer of Shakespeare, a man able to remind Victorian readers constantly of the supreme literary and moral values represented by Shakespeare's works.

Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408143739
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare And The Victorians written by Adrian Poole and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.