Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-175) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : The nineteenth-century popular press and Shakespeare reception history -- Making Shakespeare readers in the early working class press -- Shakespeare for manly boys and marriageable girls -- Character criticism and its discontents in periodicals for women -- The Theatres Regulation Act and the Great Exhibition in The theatrical journal -- Victorian periodicals and England's national theatre debate.
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