Watson, Nicola
(1991). Kemble, Scott, and the Mantle of the Bard.
In: Marsden, Jean I. ed.
The Appropriation of Shakespeare: Post-Renaissance Reconstructions of the Works and the Myth.
New York, London etc.: Harvester Wheatsheaf, pp. 73–92.
Abstract
This essay describes a relatively unfamiliar 'Romantic' Shakespeare, historicised rather than timeless, novelistic rather than poetic, and national rather than universal, by juxtaposing Kemble's Shakespeare revivals of the 1820s, notable for their meticulously researched period costumes, and a novel by his friend Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock (1826), which similarly views Shakespeare with an historical eye. Both exercises, the essay argues, can be related to a national and counter-revolutionary nostalgia characteristic of the 1820s.
| Item Type: |
Book Chapter
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| Copyright Holders: |
1991 Harvester Wheatsheaf |
| ISBN: |
0-7450-0927-1, 978-0-7450-0927-8 |
| Keywords: |
Charles Kemble; Walter Scott, Woodstock |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > English |
| Item ID: |
18706 |
| Depositing User: |
Nicola Watson
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| Date Deposited: |
21 Oct 2009 09:50 |
| Last Modified: |
23 Oct 2012 09:31 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/18706 |
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