A Shakespearean Constellation: J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps and Friends
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Beschreibung
The history of Shakespeare scholarship in the nineteenth century
has not been written. But there can be no doubt that its sustaining
force was an irrepressible and burgeoning national consciousness.
England boomed. It celebrated its heroes and venerated the greatest
of them all, Shakespeare. Shakespeare scholarship flourished
across the nation. Editions of the complete works abounded. There
were ambitious Shakespeare societies and scores of local clubs.
Stratford-upon-Avon was resurrected, refitted, and consecrated.
Much of the activity is evident from the perspective of James Orchard
Halliwell-Phillipps, whose fifty-year literary career may be
said to constitute the bookends of Shakespearean scholarship in
the nineteenth century. He was a center around which many satellites
revolved and intercommunicated, revealing personalities of
individuals, the nature of the relationships, their critical dispositions
and politics, and in effect constituting in nuce the dimension
and surge of Shakespeare scholarship of the age. It is the purpose
of this archival research to make available detail and color for the
comprehensive narrative that remains to be written.
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Marvin Spevack
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Literature Shakespear Universität Victorian criticism Shakespeare societies Shakespeare scholars Shakespeare controversy J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps John Payne Collier F. J. Furnivall