Great Shakespeareans Set II

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The second set of volumes in the eighteen-volume series Great Shakespeareans, covering the work of nineteen key figures who influenced the global understanding of Shakespeare HalfTitle Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Series Editors’ Preface Notes on Contributors Part I Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Malone Edited by Claude Rawson Acknowledgements Introduction 1 John Dryden Conversations about Shakespeare Cycles and Subcycles The Rules and the Unities Stage and Page The Nature of ‘Nature’ Dryden’s Constituency Conclusion 2 Alexander Pope A Page, a Grave Labour and elegance in Pope’s editing Pope’s editorial rationale Pope’s editorial practice The editor as verse thinker 3 Samuel Johnson The ‘Preface to Shakespeare’ 4 Edmond Malone Editing the Text: Textual Criticism Textual Editing: Interpretation and Explication The Dates and Order of Shakespeare’s Plays The Life of Shakespeare Malone’s Account of the English Stage Shakespearean Forgeries Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Part II Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean Edited by Peter Holland Introduction 5 David Garrick Statues Collecting Books Editor and Commentator Examining the Actor Playing Macbeth Editing Macbeth Authentic Macbeth Contexts for change: Garrick the actor Contexts for change: the Shakespeare revival Plays problematic and triumphant Fairies and comedy 1769: Garrick, Shakespeare and cultural tourism 6 John Philip Kemble The Memory of Kemble Becoming ‘Great John Kemble’: Kemble and the Gothic Becoming ‘King John’: Kemble and the Crowd Ending as an Old Roman: Kemble and the Classical 7 Sarah Siddons I II III IV V VI 8 Edmund Kean Provincial Playing 26 January 1814: Shylock Romantic Shakespeare Richard III Othello Other Shakespearean Roles Non-Shakespearean Roles A Coda Notes Select Bibliography Part III Voltaire, Goethe, Schlegel, Coleridge Edited by Roger Paulin Introduction 9 Voltaire Voltaire’s Shakespearean Criticism: A Chronological Approach Voltaire’s Criticism of Shakespeare: Ambivalence and Paradox The Resonance and Afterlife of Voltaire’s Shakespeare Criticism Victor Hugo, the Anti-Voltaire 10 Johann Wolfgang Goethe Introduction The Young Goethe Contemporary Criticism of Götz Goethe and the Weimar Theatre Goethe’s Production of Romeo and Juliet 1811–12 Goethe’s Later Views on Shakespeare Conclusion 11 August Wilhelm Schlegel Section A The Reception of Shakespeare in Germany 1682–1785 Introduction Shakespeare in the Age of Enlightenment Wieland’s Shakespeare Translation Shakespeare and the Sturm und Drang Eschenburg’s Translation Section B August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Romantic Shakespeare Schlegel’s Beginnings Schlegel’s Essays for Schiller’s Die Horen (1795–7) The Wilhelm Meister Essay The Romeo and Juliet Essay Schlegel’s Shakespeare Translation The Vienna Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature (1808) 12 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Stage and Dramatic Illusion Coleridge and Eighteenth-century Criticism Coleridge, Germany and Schlegel Psychology and Character Criticism Coleridge, Shakespeare and Politics Coleridge’s Critical Method Coleridge’s Development as a Critic of Shakespeare Notes Select Bibliography Part IV Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats Edited by Adrian Poole Introduction 13 Charles Lamb Mrs. Siddons in the ‘Salutation and Cat’ Early Shakespearean Appropriations: Falstaff’s Letters and John Woodvil Theatrical Encounters Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived about the Time of Shakspeare Tales from Shakespear 14 William Hazlitt Early Career Hazlitt and Kean Coleridge and Lamb Models of Genius Magnum Opus The English Canon Familiar Style Hazlitt, Keats and Shakespeare 15 John Keats Keats’s Reading of and Response to Shakespeare: Chronology and Context Antony and Cleopatra Notes Select Bibliography Index