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Shakespeare and the Victorians (Paperback)
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Shakespeare and the Victorians (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
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OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and
Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and
teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare
criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in
its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion
of its subject. The book shows how the reception and remodelling of
the works and the man directed the Victorian construction of
identity, personal, national and aesthetic, as well as laying
foundations that later Shakespeareans could continue, extend or
reject. Shakespeare was one of the most pervasive intellectual,
aesthetic, and social forces of the Victorian period, with the
plays in print, performance, and as moral examples penetrating to
every aspect of life in every social class and situation.
Shakespeare and the Victorians offers an analytical survey of the
main forms and paths of this presence. It begins with a discussion
of the processes of editing and publishing the plays, embracing
both cholarly and popular editions. It moves to consider
performance styles, quoting original reviews to assess methods of
acting and production. Music for the Shakespearean stage, now
largely forgotten, is reassessed, as is the varied tradition of
Shakespeare painting that extends far beyond the familiar images of
the Pre-Raphaelites. Shakespearian themes dominate in the novel,
especially the conflict between town and country and the changing
status of women; poetry shows the power of Shakespeare in the use
of iambic pentameter and the sonnet form. The plays are fragmented
through the study of individual character and their use as moral
compendia, and the search for 'Shakespeare the man' in biographies,
portraiture and pilgrimages to the birthplace. A concluding chapter
looks at the last two decades in terms of editing, performance, the
renewed importance of the Sonnets, and new performance styles.
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