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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829060003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2011

ISBN

1-4411-2403-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1078 p.)

Collana

Great Shakespeareans

Disciplina

822.33

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""HalfTitle""; ""Series""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Series Editorsâ€? 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 Actorâ€?s Status at Mid Century""; ""Macreadyâ€?s Acting Style""; ""Bunn versus Macready""; ""Covent Garden Management, 1837â€?39""; ""Shakespearean Masculinity""; ""Drury Lane Management, 1841â€?43""; ""Farewell to the Stage""

""6 Edwin Booth: What They Also Saw When They Saw Boothâ€?s Hamlet                                                                     """"Overview of Boothâ€?s Career""; ""Being the Son of Junius Brutus Booth""; ""Becoming Boothâ€?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""; ""Irvingâ€?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 â€? 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: â€?a benefactor to religion, to his country, and to the world at largeâ€?""; ""The Trade of a Wandering Rhapsodist""; ""â€?My masterâ€?s workâ€?""; ""â€?A being of formidable splendourâ€?""; ""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