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The Ghost Behind the Masks: The Victorian Poets and Shakespeare Hardcover - 2014
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- Title The Ghost Behind the Masks: The Victorian Poets and Shakespeare
- Author W. David Shaw
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Virginia Press
- Date 2014-06-02
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780813935447 / 081393544X
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.77 x 6.42 x 0.87 in (24.82 x 16.31 x 2.21 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - History - Victoria, 1837-1901, Shakespeare, William - Influence
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013023499
- Dewey Decimal Code 821.809
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Hardback. New. In The Ghost behind the Masks, W. David Shaw traces Shakespeare's influence on nine Victorian poets: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Swinburne, Arthur Hugh Clough, and George Meredith. Often, he writes, the transparency of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian poets and the degree of their engagement with Shakespeare exist in inverse ratio. Instead of imitating a play by Shakespeare or merely quoting his lines, a Victorian poet may embrace more elusive elements of rhetoric and style, adapting them to his or her own ends. Shaw argues that the most Shakespearean attribute of the Victorian poets is not their addiction to any particular trope or figure of speech but their reticence, the classical restraint of their great monologues, and their sudden descent from grandeur to simplicity. He explores such topics as man-made law versus natural right, Stoic fatalism versus self-reliance, and the…
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