What did the Victorians think about Shakespeare? The twelve essays accumulated right here supply a few solutions, via shut exam of works through top nineteenth-century novelists, poets and critics together with Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, Tennyson, Browning and Ruskin. Shakespeare supplied the Victorians with methods of considering the authority of the prior, in regards to the emergence of a brand new mass tradition, in regards to the family members among creative and commercial construction, concerning the nature of creativity, approximately racial and sexual distinction, and approximately person and nationwide id.
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