How theatre directors, actors, poets, women writers, political philosophers, gallery owners and other professionals in the nineteenth century turned to Shakespeare in myriad ways to advance their own political, artistic, or commercial agendas is the subject of this collection. Whether Whig or Tory, male or female, intellectual or commercial, Romantic writers found in Shakespeare a powerful medium through which to claim authority for their particular interests.
How theatre directors, actors, poets, women writers, political philosophers, gallery owners and other professionals in the nineteenth century turned to Shakespeare in myriad ways to advance their own political, artistic, or commercial agendas is the subject of this collection. Whether Whig or Tory, male or female, intellectual or commercial, Romantic writers found in Shakespeare a powerful medium through which to claim authority for their particular interests.
Joseph M. Ortiz is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.
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Contents: Introduction Joseph M. Ortiz; Part I Rethinking the Romantic Critic: 'Small reverence for station': Walter Savage Landor's subversive Shakespeare David Chandler; Peer reviewed: Elizabeth Inchbald's Shakespeare criticism Karen Bloom Gevirtz; 'My God! Madam there must be only one black figure in this play': Hamlet Ophelia and the Romantic hero Karen Britland. Part II Shakespeare and the Making of the Romantic Poet: The state of unfeigned nature: poetic imagination from Shakespeare to Wordsworth Thomas Festa; 'Mature poets steal': Charlotte Smith's appropriations of Shakespeare Joy Currie; The sublimity of Hamlet in Emily Dickinson's 'He fumbles at your soul' Marianne Noble. Part III The Romantic Stage: 'The translucence of eternity in time': Shakespeare and Coleridge's Zapolya Paola Degli Esposti; Contextual hauntings: Shakespearean ghosts on the Gothic stage Francesca Saggini; Shakespeare reception in France: the case of Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet Suddhaseel Sen. Part IV Harnessing the Renaissance: Markets Religion Politics: Reconstructing the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery Ann R. Hawkins; Pericles and the spiritual wisdom of Joanna Baillie's sacred dramas The Martyr and The Bride Marjean D. Purinton and Marliss C. Desens; A written warning: Lady Caroline Lamb noblesse oblige and the works of John Ford Leigh Wetherall-Dickson; Bibliography; Index.
Contents: Introduction Joseph M. Ortiz; Part I Rethinking the Romantic Critic: 'Small reverence for station': Walter Savage Landor's subversive Shakespeare David Chandler; Peer reviewed: Elizabeth Inchbald's Shakespeare criticism Karen Bloom Gevirtz; 'My God! Madam there must be only one black figure in this play': Hamlet Ophelia and the Romantic hero Karen Britland. Part II Shakespeare and the Making of the Romantic Poet: The state of unfeigned nature: poetic imagination from Shakespeare to Wordsworth Thomas Festa; 'Mature poets steal': Charlotte Smith's appropriations of Shakespeare Joy Currie; The sublimity of Hamlet in Emily Dickinson's 'He fumbles at your soul' Marianne Noble. Part III The Romantic Stage: 'The translucence of eternity in time': Shakespeare and Coleridge's Zapolya Paola Degli Esposti; Contextual hauntings: Shakespearean ghosts on the Gothic stage Francesca Saggini; Shakespeare reception in France: the case of Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet Suddhaseel Sen. Part IV Harnessing the Renaissance: Markets Religion Politics: Reconstructing the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery Ann R. Hawkins; Pericles and the spiritual wisdom of Joanna Baillie's sacred dramas The Martyr and The Bride Marjean D. Purinton and Marliss C. Desens; A written warning: Lady Caroline Lamb noblesse oblige and the works of John Ford Leigh Wetherall-Dickson; Bibliography; Index.
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