Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century
Title | Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Marshall |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2012-02-16 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0521518245 |
An illustrated collection of new essays with valuable reference material on the performance and reception of Shakespeare's plays.
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare
Title | The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Charles LaPorte |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2020-11-05 |
Genre | 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.
Shakespeare and Victorian Women
Title | Shakespeare and Victorian Women PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Marshall |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2009-03-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521515238 |
The first full-length study of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian women writers, actresses and readers.
The Globalization of Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century
Title | The Globalization of Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Krystyna Kujawińska-Courtney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Shakespeare, William |
ISBN |
"These essays show how Shakespeare as a cultural commodity was imported, appropriated, and exploited in countries around the world in the 19th century. Essays are grouped by the type of appropriation they emphasize: translations and adaptations, performances and theater, scholarship and criticism, or inspirations for visual arts and creative writing."
Shakespeare in 19th-Century Opera
Title | Shakespeare in 19th-Century Opera PDF eBook |
Author | Alina Borkowska-Rychlewska |
Publisher | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Dramatic music |
ISBN | 9783631778609 |
The author of the book analyses selected 19th-century operas based on Shakespeare's plays from the perspective of their relations to the literature, aesthetics and philosophy of the Romantic period. The texts discussed here include Verdi's Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff, Rossini's Otello, Halévy's The Tempest, Gounod's Romeo and Juliet and Thomas's Hamlet. The study aims to indicate diverse traces of the Romantic interpretation of Shakespeare's works in the history of the 19th-century opera. Individual chapters present the librettos of the selected operas, analysed in the context of Shakespeare's plays and their 19th-century reception, reconstructed on the basis of 19th-century historic-literary texts (of, among others, A. W. Schlegel, L. Tieck and V. Hugo), critical studies and press articles. The analyses conducted in the book succeed in presenting the evolution of the phenomenon of Romantic Shakespeareanism in the 19th-century opera theatre.
Shakespeare in the World
Title | Shakespeare in the World PDF eBook |
Author | Suddhaseel Sen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2020-10-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000206068 |
Shakespeare in the World traces the reception histories and adaptations of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century, when his works became well-known to non-Anglophone communities in both Europe and colonial India. Sen provides thorough and searching examinations of nineteenth-century theatrical, operatic, novelistic, and prose adaptations that are still read and performed, in order to argue that, crucial to the transmission and appeal of Shakespeare’s plays were the adaptations they generated in a wide range of media. These adaptations, in turn, made the absorption of the plays into different "national" cultural traditions possible, contributing to the development of "nationalist cosmopolitanisms" in the receiving cultures. Sen challenges the customary reading of Shakespeare reception in terms of "hegemony" and "mimicry," showing instead important parallels in the practices of Shakespeare adaptation in Europe and colonial India. Shakespeare in the World strikes a fine balance between the Bard’s iconicity and his colonial and post-colonial afterlives, and is an important contribution to Shakespeare studies.
Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century
Title | Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Nicolas Barker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 2005 |
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