Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Fiona Ritchie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 0521898609

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This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.


Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Author: Kate Rumbold

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-08

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1316477894

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The eighteenth century has long been acknowledged as a pivotal period in Shakespeare's reception, transforming a playwright requiring 'improvement' into a national poet whose every word was sacred. Scholars have examined the contribution of performances, adaptations, criticism and editing to this process of transformation, but the crucial role of fiction remains overlooked. Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel reveals for the first time the prevalence, and the importance, of fictional characters' direct quotations from Shakespeare. Quoting characters ascribe emotional and moral authority to Shakespeare, redeploy his theatricality, and mock banal uses of his words; by shaping in this way what is considered valuable about Shakespeare, the novel accrues new cultural authority of its own. Shakespeare underwrites, and is underwritten by, the eighteenth-century novel, and this book reveals the lasting implications for both of their reputations.


Shakespeare and the Book

Shakespeare and the Book

Author: David Scott Kastan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-09-20

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780521786515

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An account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts into books.


Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Fiona Ritchie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-02

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1107046300

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This book establishes the significance of actresses, female playgoers and women critics in shaping Shakespeare's burgeoning reputation in the eighteenth century.


The Book of William

The Book of William

Author: Paul Collins

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2009-07-07

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1596911956

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A history of the Bard's competitively pursued First Folio traces the author's travels from the site of a Sotheby auction to regions in Asia, throughout which he investigated the roles played by those who have sought and owned the Folios.


The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel

The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Author: J. A. Downie

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 0199566747

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The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth Century Novel is the first published book to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. It is an indispensible resource for those with an interest in the history of the novel.


Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar

Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar

Author: Peter Martin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-04-13

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780521460309

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First modern full-length biography of scholar and member of late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.


Gothic Shakespeares

Gothic Shakespeares

Author: John Drakakis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-12

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1134104278

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In Gothic Shakespeares, Shakespeare is considered alongside major Gothic texts and writers - from Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and Mary Shelley, up to and including contemporary Gothic fiction and horror film. This volume offers a highly original and truly provocative account of Gothic reformulations of Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s significance to the Gothic.


"Cultures of Whiggism"

Author: David Womersley

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780874138962

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In the preface to his edition of Shakespeare, Alexander Pope noted that his age was one of Parties, both in Wit and State. Much scholarship has been devoted to the complexities of the political parties of the eighteenth century, but there has been a surprising reluctance to explore what Pope implied were the corollaries of those parties, namely, parties in literature. The essays collected here explore the literary culture that arose from and supported what Pitt the Elder referred to as the great spirit of Whiggism that animated English politics during the eighteenth century. From the prehistory of Whiggism in the court of Charles II to the fractures opened up within it by the French Revolution in the 1790s, the interactions between Whiggish politics and literature are sampled and described in groundbreaking essays that range widely across the fields of eighteenth-century political prose, poetry, and the novel.