Shakespeare And Victorian Women

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 : Mrs. Jameson (Anna)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Characteristics of Women written by Mrs. Jameson (Anna) and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sophie Duncan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198790848
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle written by Sophie Duncan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and wider careers of the actresses who played them. By bringing together fin-de-siecle performances of Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian drama for the first time, this book illuminates the vital ways in which fin-de-siecle Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian theatre culture conditioned each other. Actresses' movements between Shakespeare and fin-de-siecle roles reveal the collisions and unexpected consonances between apparently independent areas of the fin-de-siecle repertory. Performances including Ellen Terry's Lady Macbeth, Madge Kendal's Rosalind, and Lillie Langtry's Cleopatra illuminate fin-de-siecle Shakespeare's lively intersections with cultural phenomena including the "Jack the Ripper" killings, aestheticism, the suicide craze, and the rise of metropolitan department stores. If, as previous studies have shown, Shakespeare was everywhere in Victorian culture, Sophie Duncan explores the surprising ways in which late-Victorian culture, from Dracula to pornography, and from Ruskin to the suffragettes, inflected Shakespeare. Via a wealth of unpublished archival material, Duncan reveals women's creative networks at the fin de siecle, and how Shakespearean performance traditions moved between actresses via little-studied performance genealogies. At the same time, controversial new stage business made fin-de-siecle Shakespeare as much a crucible for debates over gender roles and sexuality as plays by Ibsen and Shaw. Increasingly, actresses' creative networks encompassed suffragist activists, who took personal inspiration from star Shakespearean actresses. From a Salome-esque Juliet to a feminist Paulina, fin-de-siecle actresses created cultural legacies which Shakespeare-in-performance still negotiates today.

Author : Mrs. Jameson (Anna)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Heroines written by Mrs. Jameson (Anna) and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth exploration of Shakespeare's female characters, this is a must-read for Shakespeare fans and scholars, students of feminist theory and gender roles, and anyone with an interest in the Victorian era.

Author : Frank Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women of Shakespeare written by Frank Harris and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontispiece accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Mainly in support of the theory that Mary Fitton was the "dark lady" of the Sonnets.

Author : Lisa Merrill
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472087495
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Romeo was a Woman written by Lisa Merrill and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life of the androgynous nineteenth-century American actress and her work on the Anglo-American stage

Author : Linda Rozmovits
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Politics of Culture in Late Victorian England written by Linda Rozmovits and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural studies scholar Linda Rozmovits explores the board c ultural issues which gave Shakespeare's play THE MERCHANT OF VENICE such resonance with Victorian England's audiences. Rozmovits shows how the play was appropriated by Victorian writers in order to promote

Author : Anna Murphy Jameson
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460404122
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Heroines written by Anna Murphy Jameson and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2005-09-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1832, Shakespeare’s Heroines is a unique hybrid of Shakespeare criticism, women’s rights activism, and conduct literature. Jameson’s collection of readings of female characters includes praise for unexpected role models as varied as Portia, Cleopatra, and Lady Macbeth; her interpretations of these and other characters portray intellect, passion, political ambition, and eroticism as acceptable aspects of women’s behaviour. This inventive work of literary criticism addresses the problems of women’s education and participation in public life while also providing insightful, original, and entertaining readings of Shakespeare’s women. This Broadview Edition includes a critical introduction that places Shakespeare’s Heroines in the context of Jameson’s literary career and political life. Appendices include personal correspondence and other literary and political writings by Jameson, examples of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Shakespeare criticism, and selections from Victorian conduct books.

Author : Rebecca Stadtlander Rebecca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781406389609
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bold and Brave Women from Shakespeare written by Rebecca Stadtlander Rebecca and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the fascinating stories of the bold and brave women in Shakespeare's plays.Stories of twelve of Shakespeare's courageous, strong-willed and determined characters are brought to life with Becca Stadtlander's rich and evocative illustrations. Celebrate these incredible women with this beautiful gift book, the perfect way to get children fascinated by Shakespeare and inspired by his work.Featuring: Titania, Cleopatra, Rosalind, Margaret of Anjou, Cordelia, Lady Macbeth, Beatrice, Juliet, Portia, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, Miranda, Viola.

Author : Georgianna Ziegler
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Unruly Women written by Georgianna Ziegler and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ziegler, Dolan, and Roberts' "attention is directed specifically to the representations of Shakespeare's women in the Victorian era, rather than on the Elizabethan stage ... [They have] culled from the [Folger] Library's vast holdings a remarkably varied and illuminating array of books, manuscripts, and illustrations which provide a new understanding of how Shakespeare's heroines came to embody, reflect, and refract the values and assumptions of nineteenth-century English society."--Foreword, p.7.