Victorian Shakespeare, Volume 2

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Othello Redux?: Scott’s Kenilworth and the Trickiness of ‘Race’ on the Nineteenth-century Stage

Chapter 3 ‘To Make the Situation Natural’: Othello at Mid-Century

Chapter 4 Dickens and Hamlet

Chapter 5 Shakespeare at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Chapter 6 Implicit and Explicit Reason: George Eliot and Shakespeare

Chapter 7 ‘Where Did She Get Hold of That?’ Shakespeare in Henry James’s The Tragic Muse

Chapter 8 Shakespeare’s Weeds: Tennyson, Elegy and Allusion

Chapter 9 Shakespeare and the Death of Tennyson

Chapter 10 ‘The Names’: Robert Browning’s ‘Shaksperean Show’

Chapter 11 Mary Cowden Clarke: Marriage, Gender and the Victorian Woman Critic of Shakespeare

Chapter 12 Shakespeare, the Actress and the Prostitute: Professional Respectability and Private Shame in George Vandenhoff’s Leaves from an Actor ’ s Notebook

Chapter 13 ‘The Clue of Shakespearian Power Over Me’: Ruskin, Shakespeare, and Influence