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Victorian Shakespeare
Author(s) -
Marshall Gail
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2005.00142.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , period (music) , literature , victorian literature , adaptation (eye) , victorian era , history , psychology , art , aesthetics , computer science , artificial intelligence , neuroscience
This essay examines some of the main characteristics of the proliferation and reception of Shakespeare during the Victorian period: his adaptation by other writers, the practices of Victorian actor‐managers, and the variety of the ‘Shakespeares’ produced and enjoyed during the nineteenth century.