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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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