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Watson, Nicola
(1991).
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.
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- 18706
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- ISBN
- 0-7450-0927-1, 978-0-7450-0927-8
- Keywords
- Charles Kemble; Walter Scott, Woodstock
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
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- © 1991 Harvester Wheatsheaf
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- Nicola Watson