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Not Shakespeare : bardolatry and burlesque in the nineteenth century / Richard W. Schoch.
- Title
- Not Shakespeare : bardolatry and burlesque in the nineteenth century / Richard W. Schoch.
- Author
- Schoch, Richard W.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR2880.A1 S32 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 209 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Burlesque has been a powerful and enduring weapon in the critique of 'legitimate' Shakespearean culture by a seemingly 'illegitimate' popular culture. This was true most of all in the fifteenth century. From Hamlet Travestie (1810) to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1891), Shakespeare burlesques were a vibrant, yet controversial form of popular performance: vibrant because of their exuberant humour; controversial because they imperilled Shakespeare's iconic status. Richard Schoch, in the first study of nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques, explores the paradox that plays which are manifestly 'not Shakespeare' purport to be the most genuinely Shakespearean of all. Bringing together archival research, rare photographs and illustrations, close readings of burlesque scripts, and an awareness of theatrical, literary and cultural contexts, Schoch changes the way we think about Shakespeare's theatrical legacy and nineteenth-century popular culture. His lively and wide-ranging book will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare in performance, theatre history and Victorian studies."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Adaptations > History and criticism
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Parodies, imitations, etc. > History and criticism
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Appreciation > Great Britain
- 1800-1899
- English drama > 19th century > History and criticism
- Popular culture > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Theater > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- English drama (Comedy) > History and criticism
- Burlesques
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-202) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on texts -- Introduction "New readings for unconventional tragedians" -- "Vile beyond endurance": the language of burlesque -- Shakespeare's surrogates -- Shakespeare in Bohemia -- Politics "burlesquified."
- ISBN
- 0521800153
- LCCN
- ^^2001037924
- OCLC
- 47650584
- SCSB-11063598
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library