Prince Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-135-89657-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Major Literary Authors

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prince, Kathryn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Nineteenth-Century Popular Press and Shakespeare Reception History

Chapter One: Making Shakespeare Readers in the Early Working Class Press

Chapter Two: Shakespeare for Manly Boys and Marriageable Girls

Chapter Three: Character Criticism and its Discontents in Periodicals for Women

Chapter Four: The Theatres Regulation Act and the Great Exhibition in the Theatrical Journal

Chapter Five: Victorian Periodicals and England’s National Theatre Debate

Notes

Bibliography

Index