Shakespeare and Victorian Women
Title | Shakespeare and Victorian Women PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Marshall |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 213 |
Release | 2009-03-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521515238 |
The first full-length study of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian women writers, actresses and readers.
Characteristics of Women
Title | Characteristics of Women PDF eBook |
Author | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 480 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Women in art |
ISBN |
Shakespeare's Unruly Women
Title | Shakespeare's Unruly Women PDF eBook |
Author | Georgianna Ziegler |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | 120 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
Ziegler, Dolan, and Roberts' "attention is directed specifically to the representations of Shakespeare's women in the Victorian era, rather than on the Elizabethan stage ... [They have] culled from the [Folger] Library's vast holdings a remarkably varied and illuminating array of books, manuscripts, and illustrations which provide a new understanding of how Shakespeare's heroines came to embody, reflect, and refract the values and assumptions of nineteenth-century English society."--Foreword, p.7.
Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle
Title | Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Duncan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0198790848 |
Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and wider careers of the actresses who played them. By bringing together fin-de-siecle performances of Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian drama for the first time, this book illuminates the vital ways in which fin-de-siecle Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian theatre culture conditioned each other. Actresses' movements between Shakespeare and fin-de-siecle roles reveal the collisions and unexpected consonances between apparently independent areas of the fin-de-siecle repertory. Performances including Ellen Terry's Lady Macbeth, Madge Kendal's Rosalind, and Lillie Langtry's Cleopatra illuminate fin-de-siecle Shakespeare's lively intersections with cultural phenomena including the "Jack the Ripper" killings, aestheticism, the suicide craze, and the rise of metropolitan department stores. If, as previous studies have shown, Shakespeare was everywhere in Victorian culture, Sophie Duncan explores the surprising ways in which late-Victorian culture, from Dracula to pornography, and from Ruskin to the suffragettes, inflected Shakespeare. Via a wealth of unpublished archival material, Duncan reveals women's creative networks at the fin de siecle, and how Shakespearean performance traditions moved between actresses via little-studied performance genealogies. At the same time, controversial new stage business made fin-de-siecle Shakespeare as much a crucible for debates over gender roles and sexuality as plays by Ibsen and Shaw. Increasingly, actresses' creative networks encompassed suffragist activists, who took personal inspiration from star Shakespearean actresses. From a Salome-esque Juliet to a feminist Paulina, fin-de-siecle actresses created cultural legacies which Shakespeare-in-performance still negotiates today.
When Romeo was a Woman
Title | When Romeo was a Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Merrill |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Actors |
ISBN | 9780472087495 |
Examines the life of the androgynous nineteenth-century American actress and her work on the Anglo-American stage
Shakespeare's Heroines
Title | Shakespeare's Heroines PDF eBook |
Author | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 341 |
Release | 1930 |
Genre | Feminism and literature |
ISBN |
The first in-depth exploration of Shakespeare's female characters, this is a must-read for Shakespeare fans and scholars, students of feminist theory and gender roles, and anyone with an interest in the Victorian era.
The Women of Shakespeare
Title | The Women of Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Harris |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Women as literary characters |
ISBN |
Frontispiece accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Mainly in support of the theory that Mary Fitton was the "dark lady" of the Sonnets.