Victorian Shakespeare

GAIL MARSHALL is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Actresses on the Victorian Stage (1998) and Victorian Fiction (2002), and the editor of George Eliot (2003). She is currently writing a monograph on the relationship between Victorian women and Shakespeare. ADRIAN POOLE is Reader in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College. His books include Tragedy: Shakespeare and the Greek Example (1987), Henry James (1991), and (co-edited with Jeremy Maule) The Ox

'Victorian Shakespeare is not free from a tendency to make history a refuge from judgement, but it does richly advance our understanding of how Shakespeare made us and how we have made him.' - Times Literary Supplement

• List of Illustrations Foreword; S.Wells Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors References Introduction; G.Marshall Shakespeare and the Wars of the Playbills; K.Newey 'Behold the swelling scene!' Shakespeare and the 1832 Select Committee; J.Swindells Performing Shakespeare in Print: Narrative in Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Shakespeares; P.Holland Shakespeare Mad; R.W.Schoch Acting Like a Man: National Identity, Homoerotics, and Shakespearean Criticism in the Nineteenth-Century American Press; L.Merrill Shakespeare and the Immigrants: Nationhood, Psychology and Xenophobia on the Nineteenth-Century Stage; J.Moody 'At the Side of Shakespeare': Ibsen's The Pretenders and Victorian Shakespeare; S.Jan As They Liked It: Shakespearean Comedy Goes Continental; I-S.Ewbank Touchstone for the times: Victorians in the Forest of Arden; R.Foulkes Varying Authenticities: Poel, Tree and Late Victorian Shakespeare; J.Chothia 'Shopping in Byzantium': Oscar Wilde as Shakespeare Critic; J.Stokes Perturbed Spirits: Victorian Actors and Immortality; N.Auerbach Index