Shakespeare And The Victorian Stage

Author : Richard Foulkes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521089530

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Shakespeare and the Victorian Stage by Richard Foulkes Pdf

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
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521622816

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Shakespeare's Victorian Stage by Richard W. Schoch Pdf

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
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135896577

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Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals by Kathryn Prince Pdf

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 : New York : B. Blom
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010665722

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The Art of the Victorian Stage by Alfred Darbyshire Pdf

Author : Gail Marshall,Adrian Poole
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230504141

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Victorian Shakespeare by Gail Marshall,Adrian Poole Pdf

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
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199668083

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Shakespeare and the Victorians by Stuart Sillars Pdf

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 : Charles LaPorte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108496155

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The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare by Charles LaPorte Pdf

How and why did Victorian culture make Shakespeare into a literary deity and his work into a secular Bible?

Author : Alan R. Young
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039110780

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Punch and Shakespeare in the Victorian Era by Alan R. Young Pdf

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
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408143735

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Shakespeare And The Victorians by Adrian Poole Pdf

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 : Adrian Poole
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408143728

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Shakespeare And The Victorians by Adrian Poole Pdf

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 : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521515238

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Shakespeare and Victorian Women by Gail Marshall Pdf

The first full-length study of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian women writers, actresses and readers.

Author : Richard Foulkes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521034426

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Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire by Richard Foulkes Pdf

Explores the political and social uses of Shakespeare through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century.

Author : Michael R. Booth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991-07-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521348374

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Theatre in the Victorian Age by Michael R. Booth Pdf

A comprehensive survey of the theatre practice and dramatic literature of the Victorian period.

Author : Kathryn Prince
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781135896584

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Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals by Kathryn Prince Pdf

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 : Michael R. Booth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317389460

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Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850-1910 by Michael R. Booth Pdf

Originally published in 1981. This study concentrates on one aspect of Victorian theatre production in the second half of the nineteenth century – the spectacular, which came to dominate certain kinds of production during that period. A remarkably consistent style, it was used for a variety of dramatic forms, although surrounded by critical controversy. The book considers the theories and practice of spectacle production as well as the cultural and artistic movements that created the favourable conditions in which spectacle could dominate such large areas of theatre for so many years. It also discusses the growth of spectacle and the taste of the public for it, examining the influence of painting, archaeology, history, and the trend towards realism in stage production. An explanation of the working of spectacle in Shakespeare, pantomime and melodrama is followed by detailed reconstructions of the spectacle productions of Irving’s Faust and Beerbohm Tree’s King Henry VIII.