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The ghost behind the masks

Shaw, W. David

The ghost behind the masks the Victorian poets and Shakespeare / [electronic resource] : W. David Shaw. - London : University of Virginia Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Victorian literature and culture series . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Poetic beginnings -- Word and love games: Berowne and Ida's prince -- The trespass of intimacy: artists in crime -- Pt. 2. Hamlet's afterlives -- Toils of fate: Dickens, Hamlet, and Malvolio -- The angel of dust: a god in exile -- Pt. 3. Shades of King Lear -- Thou, nature, art my goddess: the garden and the heath -- A choral mind trap: Hardy and the homilists -- Wisdom and wit: Lear's fool to Dagonet -- The end of illusion: Childe Roland and Caliban -- Pt. 4. Grace and death -- A toil of grace: Cleopatra and her heirs -- Off the edge: end games and elegy -- The hills are shadows: time the devourer -- Oracle meets wit: the promised end.

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Influence.


Poetics--History--19th century.
Aesthetics, Modern--19th century.
English poetry--History and criticism.--19th century


Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.


Electronic books.

PR595.A34 / S53 2014

821/.8/0938