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Author:

Shaw, W. David (William David), author.

Title:

The ghost behind the masks : the Victorian poets and Shakespeare / W. David Shaw.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

285 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Influence.
English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
Aesthetics, Modern--19th century.
Poetics--History--19th century.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-275) and index.

Contents:

Poetic beginnings -- Word and love games : Berowne and Ida's prince -- The trespass of intimacy : artists in crime -- Hamlet's afterlives -- Toils of fate : Dickens, Hamlet, and Malvolio -- The angel of dust : a god in exile -- Shades of King Lear -- Thou, nature, art my goddess : the garden and the heath -- A choral mind trap : Hardy and the homilists -- Wisdom and wit : Lear's fool to Dagonet -- The end of illusion : Childe Roland and Caliban -- Grace and death -- A toil of grace : Cleopatra and her heirs -- Off the edge : end games and elegy -- The hills are shadows : time the devourer -- Oracle meets wit : the promised end.

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series

ISBN:

081393544X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813935447 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)852488393

LCCN:

2013023499

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)