Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-96243-8
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 11th January 2008
- Pages: 190
About the Book
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.
Table of Contents
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