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www.cambridge.org © in this web service Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51824-6 - Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century Edited by Gail Marshall Frontmatter More information SHAKESPEARE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY In the nineteenth century Shakespeare achieved the status of inter- national pre-eminence that we recognize today. He and his major characters were depicted in statues, paintings and illustrations, and in Stratford-upon-Avon the house where he was born was purchased for the nation and the first Memorial Theatre was built. His words were read, quoted and declaimed in domestic drawing rooms and theatres all around the world, as well as in the works of the leading writers of the day, in intimate love letters, and in the pages of radical newspapers. As these new essays show, his was a voice that resonated tellingly throughout the century’s cultural, political and literary arenas. The unique reference guide also shows just how popular he was in a number of London theatres, and how integral a part he played in the publishing industry of the day and in the burgeoning field of literary criticism. gail marshall is Professor of Victorian Literature and Director of the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester. Her publications include Shakespeare and Victorian Women (Cambridge, 2009) and Actresses on the Victorian Stage: Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth (Cambridge, 1998). She has edited The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Sie `cle (Cambridge, 2007).

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SHAKESPEARE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

In the nineteenth century Shakespeare achieved the status of inter-national pre-eminence that we recognize today. He and his majorcharacters were depicted in statues, paintings and illustrations, andin Stratford-upon-Avon the house where he was born was purchasedfor the nation and the first Memorial Theatre was built. His wordswere read, quoted and declaimed in domestic drawing rooms andtheatres all around the world, as well as in the works of the leadingwriters of the day, in intimate love letters, and in the pages of radicalnewspapers. As these new essays show, his was a voice that resonatedtellingly throughout the century’s cultural, political and literaryarenas. The unique reference guide also shows just how popular hewas in a number of London theatres, and how integral a part heplayed in the publishing industry of the day and in the burgeoningfield of literary criticism.

gail marshall is Professor of Victorian Literature and Directorof the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester. Herpublications include Shakespeare and Victorian Women (Cambridge,2009) and Actresses on the Victorian Stage: Feminine Performance andthe Galatea Myth (Cambridge, 1998). She has edited The CambridgeCompanion to the Fin de Siecle (Cambridge, 2007).

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SHAKESPEARE IN THE

NINETEENTH CENTURY

EDITED BY

GAIL MARSHALL

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Shakespeare in the nineteenth century / edited by Gail Marshall.p. cm.

isbn 978-0-521-51824-6 (Hardback)1. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616–Criticism and interpretation–History–19th century.

2. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616–Influence. 3. English-speaking countries–Intellectuallife–19th century. i. Marshall, Gail, 1965– ii. Title.

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This book is dedicated to the memory of our friendsand colleagues, Jane Moody and Julia Swindells.

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Contents

List of illustrations and table page ixNotes on contributors xiAcknowledgements xv

Introduction 1

Gail Marshall

1 Shakespeare editions 16

Christopher Decker

2 Shakespeare criticism 39

Mark Hollingsworth

3 Shakespeare in the periodicals 60

Kathryn Prince

4 Shakespeare their contemporary 76

Russell Jackson

5 Shakespeare and fiction 96

Gail Marshall

6 Shakespeare and poetry 113

Philip Shaw and Gail Marshall

7 Shakespeare and drama 129

David Francis Taylor

8 Shakespeare in London 148

Russell Jackson

9 Shakespeare in the provinces 169

Richard Foulkes

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10 Shakespeare and music 187

Julie Sanders

11 Women and Shakespeare 205

Georgianna Ziegler

12 Shakespeare and politics 229

William Greenslade

13 Shakespeare and commercialism 251

Julia Thomas

14 Shakespeare and the visual arts 269

Stuart Sillars

15 Shakespeare in Europe 296

John Stokes

16 Shakespeare and Germany 314

Frederick Burwick

17 Shakespeare in America’s gilded age 332

Virginia Mason Vaughan

A reference guide to performances of Shakespeare’s playsin nineteenth-century London 348

Janice Norwood

A reference guide to nineteenth-century works about Shakespeareand play publication by year 417

Mark Hollingsworth

Select bibliography 446Index 457

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Illustrations and table

Except where otherwise specified, images are from the collection of StuartSillars.

Figure 1 Cassell’s Illustrated Shakespeare (1864–8). Bypermission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. page 212

Figure 2 Anna Jameson, Characteristics of Women, Moral,Poetical, and Historical (1832). By permissionof the Folger Shakespeare Library. 217

Figure 3 C. R. Leslie: Falstaff and his Friends, engraved byW. Greatbach, from Charles Knight’s Shakespeare,1870–3. 272

Figure 4 Arthur Hughes: Ophelia, engraved by C. Cousen,from the Art Journal, 1853. 274

Figure 5 Mrs E. M. Ward: The Maid of Orleans, engravedby Joel Ballin, from Charles Knight’s Shakespeare,1870–3. 277

Figure 6 Unsigned engraving from the Illustrated London Newsof 19 March 1859, showing a scene from Charles Kean’sMuch Ado About Nothing, produced in the same yearat the Princess’s Theatre, London. 279

Figure 7 Charles Heath: ‘Portia’ from Julius Caesar, in a steelengraving by Charles Heath from his ShakespeareGallery of 1837. 280

Figure 8 Lawrence Alma-Tadema: ‘Portia’, from The GraphicGallery of Shakespeare’s Heroines, 1888. 281

Figure 9 Studio photograph, probably by Martin Laroche, ofCarlotta Leclerq as Titania and a group of fairies, fromCharles Kean’s production of A Midsummer Night’sDream at the Princess’s Theatre, London, 1855.Photograph # Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 283

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Figure 10 Chancellor of Dublin: studio photograph of Mr andMrs E. F. Benson as Henry V and Katherine of France,in costume from their touring production. FromCollins’s Complete Works of William Shakespeare, 1900. 284

Figure 11 Sir Joseph Noel Paton: outline engraving of the masqueof Ceres, Plate xiii from his series presentingThe Tempest, 1845. 286

Figure 12 John Thurston, engraved by John Thompson:King John, from Illustrations of Shakespeare, 1825. 287

Figure 13 Unidentified artist: two copies of classical designsfor Hamlet from Charles Knight’s Pictorial Shakspere,1838–43. 288

Figure 14 Kenny Meadows: page from Hamlet, in BarryCornwall’s edition of Shakespeare, 1838–43. 289

Figure 15 Sir John Gilbert: title page to Love’s Labour’s Lost,from the edition of Shakespeare’s works by HowardStaunton, 1868. 290

Table 1 Play publication by year, 1800–1899 442

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Contributors

frederick burwick, Professor Emeritus at UCLA, has taught courses onRomantic drama and directed several student performances. Author and editor oftwenty-eight books and over a hundred articles, his research is dedicated toproblems of perception, illusion and delusion in literary representation andtheatrical performance. His Illusion and the Drama (1991) analyzes affectivetheories of the drama from the Enlightenment through the Romantic period.His Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination (1996) won the Barricelli Bookof the Year Award of the International Conference on Romanticism. He has beennamed Distinguished Scholar by both the British Academy (1992) and the Keats–Shelley Association (1998). Recent publications include Romantic Drama: Actingand Reacting (Cambridge, 2009) and Playing to the Crowd: London PopularTheatre, 1780–1830 (2011).

christopher decker is Associate Professor of English at the University ofNevada, Las Vegas. He is the editor of Edward FitzGerald – Rubaiyat of OmarKhayyam: A Critical Edition, and has written on Victorian poetry, Shakespeare,allusion and the history of reading.

richard foulkes is Emeritus Professor of Theatre History at the Universityof Leicester. His publications include Church and Stage in Victorian England(1997), Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire (2002) and Lewis Carroll andthe Victorian Stage: Theatricals in a Quiet Life (2005). Amongst his editedvolumes are Scenes from Provincial Stages: Essays in Honour of Kathleen Barker(1994) and Henry Irving: A Re-Evaluation (2008). He edited the Macreadyvolume in Pickering & Chatto’s Lives of Shakespearian Actors series (2010).He has contributed to Shakespeare Survey and numerous other journals and wasan associate editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is chair ofthe Society for Theatre Research.

william greenslade is Professor of English at the University of the West ofEngland. He is the author of Degeneration, Culture and the Novel 1880–1940(1994; 2010) and has edited Thomas Hardy’s ‘Facts’ Notebook: A Critical Edition

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(2004) and (with Terence Rodgers) Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politicsat the Fin de Siecle (2005). He has written various essays on late nineteenth-century British literature and culture, including ‘Thomas Hardy’s Notebooks’ inKeith Wilson (ed.), A Companion to Thomas Hardy (2009), and ‘ProvincialFiction and the Decline of Puritan England’ in Patrick Parrinder and AndrzejGasiorek (eds.), The Oxford History of the Novel in English, volume iv, TheReinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880–1940 (2011).

mark hollingsworth is Assistant Registrar at Loughborough Universityand has taught at the University of Derby and the University of Nottingham. Hisresearch interests include Shakespeare appropriation and the nineteenth centuryas well as the history of criticism and the rise of English studies. Previous writinghas covered work on the Dictionary of National Biography project, VictorianHellenism and the portrayal of children and childhood in the nineteenth-centurypress. Dr Hollingsworth has co-edited the Working with English journal and iscurrently working on a study of the links between nationalism and the rise ofacademia in the late nineteenth century.

russell jackson is Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Drama and head of theDepartment of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham. Hispublications include editions of plays by Oscar Wilde and Henry Arthur Jones, atranslation of Theodor Fontane’s reviews of London Shakespeare productions inthe 1850s and an anthology of documents of the Victorian theatre. He edited theCambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film (second edition, 2007) and his bookShakespeare Films in the Making appeared in 2007. He has worked extensively as atext adviser for Shakespearean performances, including film, stage and radioproductions directed by Kenneth Branagh, Oliver Parker and Michael Grandage.

gail marshall is Professor of Victorian Literature at the University ofLeicester and is director of its Victorian Studies Centre. She is the author ofActresses on the Victorian Stage (1998), Victorian Fiction (2002) and Shakespeareand Victorian Women (2009). She is co-editor with Adrian Poole of the two-volume collection of essays, Victorian Shakespeare (2003), and is general editor ofPickering & Chatto’s Lives of Shakespearian Actors series. Professor Marshall iscurrently working on a study of the literature and culture of 1859.

janice norwood is a lecturer in English Literature at the University ofHertfordshire. Her research interests are in nineteenth-century theatrical per-formance, especially relating to the theatres of the East End of London. She haspublished work on the Britannia Theatre, the dramatist C. H. Hazlewood, stageadaptations of Wilkie Collins’s novels, the prize fighter Tom Sayers and Victor-ian pantomime. Her book on Lucia Elizabeth Vestris was published in the Livesof Shakespearian Actors series in 2011.

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kathryn prince is a theatre historian at the University of Ottawa, with aparticular interest in the theatrical afterlife of Shakespeare and his contemporar-ies. Her current projects include a performance history of Much Ado AboutNothing, the essay collection Performing Early Modern Drama Today (co-editedwith Dr Pascale Aebischer) and a biography of Dame Judi Dench for the GreatShakespeareans series (general editors Peter Holland and Adrian Poole). Her firstbook, Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals, was published in 2007.

julie sanders is Professor of English Literature and Drama at the Universityof Nottingham. She has published widely on seventeenth-century literature andon adaptation studies. She is the author of The Cultural Geography of EarlyModern Drama, 1620–1650 (2011) and the editor of Ben Jonson in Context(2010), and is currently working with James Loxley on an AHRC project onBen Jonson’s walk to Scotland. She is also the author of Shakespeare and Music:Afterlives and Borrowings (2007) and of Adaptation and Appropriation (2006).

philip shaw is Professor of Romantic Studies in the School of English at theUniversity of Leicester. He has research interests in Romantic poetry and prose,aethetics and the visual arts. His most recent publications include The Sublime(2006), Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination (2002), and, as editor, RomanticWars: Studies in Culture and Conflict, 1789–1822 (2000). At present he is workingon a book-length art historical study entitled ‘Suffering and Sentiment inRomantic Military Art’. He is reviews editor of The Byron Journal and in 2008was elected a Fellow of the English Association.

stuart sillars is Professor of English at the University of Bergen, havingpreviously been a member of the Faculty of English at Cambridge. He haswritten extensively on literature and the visual arts, and his most recent booksare Shakespeare, Time and the Victorians: A Pictorial Exploration (Cambridge,2011), The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709–1875 (Cambridge, 2008), and PaintingShakespeare: The Artist as Critic, 1720–1820 (Cambridge, 2006). Earlier bookshave explored visual and literary art in the two world wars, illustration and theVictorian novel, and the special forms of irony involved in English writing of theearly twentieth century.

john stokes is Emeritus Professor of Modern British Literature in theDepartment of English, King’s College London. He is author of The FrenchActress and her English Audience (2005) and the co-editor, with Maggie B. Gale, ofThe Cambridge Companion to the Actress (2007).

david francis taylor is Assistant Professor of English at the University ofToronto. His is the author of Theatres of Opposition: Empire, Revolution, andRichard Brinsley Sheridan (2012). He has published articles on drama of theeighteenth and nineteenth centuries in New Theatre Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century

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Studies and European Romantic Review, and co-edited the Samuel Phelps volume inthe Lives of Shakespearian Actors series. He is also co-editor of the forthcomingOxford Handbook to the Georgian Playhouse, 1737–1832.

julia thomas is Director of the Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Researchat Cardiff University. She is the author of Victorian Narrative Painting (2000)and Pictorial Victorians: The Inscription of Values in Word and Image (2004), andis director of the AHRC-funded Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-EngravedIllustration. Her publications on Victorian Shakespeare include her book, Shake-speare’s Shrine: The Bard’s Birthplace and the Invention of Stratford-upon-Avon(2012).

virginia mason vaughan is Professor of English at Clark University inWorcester, Massachusetts, where she teaches Shakespeare and Early ModernEnglish Literature. She is the author of Othello: A Contextual History (1994), astudy of early modern impersonations of black Africans, Performing Blackness onEnglish Stages, 1500–1800 (2005) and The Tempest for Manchester UniversityPress’s ‘Shakespeare in Performance’ series (2011). With Alden T. Vaughan shealso co-authored Shakespeare’s Caliban: A Cultural History (1991) and co-editedThe Tempest for the Arden Third Series (1999; rev. edn 2011).

georgianna ziegler is Louis B. Thalheimer Head of Reference at theFolger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. She curated and wrote cata-logues for the exhibitions ‘Shakespeare’s Unruly Women’ and ‘Elizabeth I: Thenand Now’, and has published articles on Lewis Carroll’s plans for a girls’Shakespeare; interpretations of Lady Macbeth, Ophelia and Catherine of Aragonin the nineteenth century; Queen Victoria and Shakespeare; and early versions ofShakespeare for children. She is currently finishing a book on women andShakespeare in the nineteenth century and is curating an exhibition on Englishand continental women writers, 1500–1700.

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Acknowledgements

The editor would very much like to thank the contributors for theirefforts in working on this book, and in particular those colleagues whostepped in to help at short notice; Linda Bree and Maartje Scheltens ofCambridge University Press for their assistance and advice at all stages inthe process; Clare Mendes for her work on indexing the volume, andAndy for his help throughout.

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