Reforging Shakespeare
Reforging Shakespeare

Author: Jeffrey Kahan

Publisher: Lehigh University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780934223553

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Supporters filled the house to ensure a positive reception, but as the curtain went up, no one could suspect the disaster that was to ensue.

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.

A Profane Wit
A Profane Wit

Author: James William Johnson

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9781580461702

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A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester. Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his pious contemporaries with his doubts about religion and his blunt verses that dealt with sex or vicious satiric assaults on the high and mighty of the court. This account of Rochester and his times provides the facts behind his legendary reputation as a rake and his deathbed repentance. However, it also demonstrates that he was a loving if unfaithful husband, a devoted father, a loyal friend, a serious scholar, a social critic, and an aspiring patriot. An Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Rochester, James William Johnson is the author or editor of nine books and many articles treating British and American Literature.

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Author: Brian Vickers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 113478368X

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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.