Kathryn Prince - Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals

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SHAKESPEARE IN THE VICTORIAN PERIODICALS

Kathryn Prince

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Prince, Kathryn, 1973
Shakespeare in the Victorian periodicals / by Kathryn Prince.
p. cm.(Studies in major literary authors)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-96243-8 (acid-free paper)
ISBN-10: 0-415-96243-9 (acid-free paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-203-92800-4 (ebk.)
ISBN-10: 0-203-92800-8 (ebk.)
1. Shakespeare, William, 15641616Criticism and interpretationHistory19th century. 2. PeriodicalsPublishingGreat BritainHistory19th century. 3. Shakespeare, William, 15641616AppreciationGreat Britain. 4. Shakespeare, William, 15641616Influence. 5. CriticismGreat BritainHistory19th century. I. Title.
PR2969.P75 2008
822.3'3dc22 2007044044

ISBN13: 978-1-135-89657-7 ePub ISBN

ISBN10: 0-415-96243-9 (hbk)

ISBN10: 0-203-92800-8 (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-96243-8 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-92800-4 (ebk)

In the nineteenth century, Shakespeare became part of popular culture largely through the unprecedented attention accorded to him in the periodical press. Shakespeares rise to the pinnacle of the literary canon in the eighteenth century had made him an essential element of British cultural literacy, and technological and demographic changes in the nineteenth century enabled the wider dissemination of information about him and his works through the inexpensive, accessible periodicals that constitute the major publishing genre of that era. This book charts that dissemination, and considers its impact on Shakespeare reception more widely.

A missing element in Shakespeare reception has been the influential and widely read Victorian periodicals in which articles intended for well-defined readerships are records of alternative Shakespeares. Research focusing on Victorian Shakespeare and on Shakespeare in popular culture has already identified some of the varied representations of Shakespeare available to the Victorians through performance, criticism, and formal education, among others, and this book builds on that recent research.). This analysis is primarily concerned with opening new investigative terrain rather than foreclosing meaning, and will, I hope, lead to further investigations of the periodical evidence by both myself and those who, like me, find in them a rich vein of responses to Shakespeare at a time when his value to popular culture had yet to be established.