The Victorian Cult Of Shakespeare

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 : 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 : Adrian Poole
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408143720
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare And The Victorians written by Adrian Poole and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 311 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.

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 : 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 : F. E. Halliday
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cult of Shakespeare written by F. E. Halliday and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. E. Halliday
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780897603539
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cult of Shakespeare written by F. E. Halliday and published by . This book was released on 1981-09-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Midsummer-night's Dream written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sally Barnden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198895038
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Royal Actor written by Sally Barnden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and the Royal Actor argues that members of the royal family have identified with Shakespearean figures at various times in modern history to assert the continuity, legitimacy, and national identity of the royal line. It provides an account of the relationship between the Shakespearean afterlife and the royal family through the lens of a broadly conceived theatre history suggesting that these two hegemonic institutions had a mutually sustaining relationship from the accession of George III in 1760 to that of Elizabeth II in 1952. Identifications with Shakespearean figures have been deployed to assert the Englishness of a dynasty with strong familial links to Germany and to cultivate a sense of continuity from the more autocratic Plantagenet, Tudor, and Stuart monarchs informing Shakespeare's drama to the increasingly ceremonial monarchs of the modern period. The book is driven by new archival research in the Royal Collection and Royal Archives. It reads these archives critically, asking how different forms of royal and Shakespearean performance are remembered in the material holdings of royal institutions.

Author : Helen Hackett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691128065
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Elizabeth written by Helen Hackett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of invented encounters between Shakespeare and the Queen Elizabeth I, and examines how and why the mythology of these two cultural icons has been intertwined in British and American culture. It follows the history of meetings between the poet and the queen through historical novels, plays, paintings, and films, ranging from works such as Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth and the film Shakespeare in Love to lesser known examples. Raising questions about the boundaries separating scholarship and fiction, it looks at biographers and critics who continue to delve into links between these two. In the Shakespeare authorship controversy there have even been claims that Shakespeare was Elizabeth's secret son or lover, or that Elizabeth herself was the genius Shakespeare. The author examines the reasons behind the lasting appeal of their combined reputations, and locates this interest in their enigmatic sexual identities, as well as in the ways they represent political tensions and national aspirations.