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The ghost behind the masks : the Victorian poets and Shakespeare / W. David Shaw.
Van Pelt Library PR595.A34 S528 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaw, W. David (William David), author.
- Series:
- Victorian literature and culture series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Aesthetics, Modern--19th century.
- Aesthetics, Modern.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Poetics--History--19th century.
- Poetics.
- History.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 285 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Poetic beginnings
- Word and love games: Berowne and Ida's prince
- The trespass of intimacy: artists in crime
- Pt. 2. Hamlet's afterlives
- Toils of fate: Dickens, Hamlet, and Malvolio
- The angel of dust: a god in exile
- Pt. 3. Shades of King Lear
- Thou, nature, art my goddess: the garden and the heath
- A choral mind trap: Hardy and the homilists
- Wisdom and wit: Lear's fool to Dagonet
- The end of illusion: Childe Roland and Caliban
- Pt. 4. Grace and death
- A toil of grace: Cleopatra and her heirs
- Off the edge: end games and elegy
- The hills are shadows: time the devourer
- Oracle meets wit: the promised end.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-275) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813935447
- 081393544X
- OCLC:
- 852488393
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