Great Shakespeareans. Set II / edited by Adrian Poole [and five others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Poole, Adrian, editor.

Series:

Great Shakespeareans.

Great Shakespeareans

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1078 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers, and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Great Shakespeareans will be an essential resource for students and scholars in Shakespeare studies.

Contents:

""HalfTitle""; ""Series""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Series Editors� Preface""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Part I Scott, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy ""; ""Introduction ""; ""1 Sir Walter Scott ""; ""Introduction""; ""The Modern Shakespeare""; ""Shakespeare in Scott""; ""Shakespeare after Scott""; ""2 Charles Dickens ""; ""Popularity""; ""Pretensions""; ""Allusion""; ""Hamlet""; ""King Lear""; ""Macbeth""

""3 George Eliot """"4 Thomas Hardy ""; ""Notes ""; ""Select Bibliography ""; ""Part II Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving ""; ""Introduction ""; ""5 W.C. Macready ""; ""Bardolatry and the Actor�s Status at Mid Century""; ""Macready�s Acting Style""; ""Bunn versus Macready""; ""Covent Garden Management, 1837�39""; ""Shakespearean Masculinity""; ""Drury Lane Management, 1841�43""; ""Farewell to the Stage""

""6 Edwin Booth: What They Also Saw When They Saw Booth�s Hamlet """"Overview of Booth�s Career""; ""Being the Son of Junius Brutus Booth""; ""Becoming Booth�s Hamlet""; ""7 Ellen Terry ""; ""Early Shakespeare Roles""; ""Shakespeare at the Lyceum""; ""Post-Lyceum Shakespeare""; ""8 Henry Irving ""; ""A Theatrical Life""; ""Shakespeare on the Lyceum Stage""; ""Irving�s Artistic Vision""; ""Bardolatry""; ""Anglophone Cultural Imperialism""; ""Notes ""

""Select Bibliography """"Part III Jameson, Cowden Clarke, Kemble, Cushman ""; ""Introduction ""; ""9 Anna Jameson ""; ""Tradition and the Intellectual Woman""; ""Characters of the Passions and Affections in the Mind of an Intellectual Woman""; ""Historical Characters � A Page of Their Own""; ""10 Mary Cowden Clarke ""; ""11 Frances Anne Kemble ""; ""The Young Princess i: Accession""; ""The Young Princess ii: Deposition""

""Enter and Exit Mrs Butler""""The National Drama?""; ""The Last of the Kembles""; ""Mrs Fanny Kemble, Shakespearean Reader""; ""Shakespeare on the Lecture Platform: �a benefactor to religion, to his country, and to the world at large�""; ""The Trade of a Wandering Rhapsodist""; ""�My master�s work�""; ""�A being of formidable splendour�""; ""12 Charlotte Cushman ""; ""Prelude: Modelling on Fanny Kemble""; ""Transatlantic (and Gender) Crossings: Restoring Shakespeare and Embodying Romeo""; ""Cushman as a Cultural Icon: Captured in Clay""

""Filling Other (Shakespearean) Breeches

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 16, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4411-2403-9