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Title:
"Review of Robert Lewis' Red Hamlet (directed by Robert Lewis) for the Group Theatre, New York, October 1933"
Author:
Butcher, Jeffrey.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Shakespeare (British Shakespeare Association) 9, no. 3 (2013): 362–64.
Annotation:

Reconstructs Robert Lewis' Red Hamlet (a Communist-influenced adaptation of Hamlet) from Lewis' outline and directorial notes.

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"'Small reverence for station': Walter Savage Landor's Subversive Shakespeare"
Author:
Chandler, David.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Ortiz, Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism, 13–30.
Annotation:

Focuses on Walter Savage Landor's Shakespeare criticism in highlighting the political dimensions of Shakespeare criticism in Romantic England. Suggests that Landor raises the liberating possibility that Shakespeare can be read as "slippery, subversive Shakespeare."

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Title:
"Peer Reviewed: Elizabeth Inchbald's Shakespeare Criticism"
Author:
Gevirtz, Karen Bloom.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Ortiz, Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism, 31–49.
Annotation:

Examines Elizabeth Inchbald's essays on Shakespeare and how her experience as an actress and a playwright influenced her reading. Argues that her alternative approach to the relationship between text and its consumers gives her work significance as a female Romantic.

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Title:
"'My God! Madam, there must be only one black figure in this play': Hamlet, Ophelia, and the Romantic Hero"
Author:
Britland, Karen.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Ortiz, Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism, 51–74.
Annotation:

Uses Hamlet in highlighting the potential of female critics and actresses to unsettle Romantic paradigms. Focuses on the Romantic idea of genius and its influence on constructing poetic subjectivity as specifically male.

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Title:
"The State of Unfeigned Nature: Poetic Imagination from Shakespeare to Wordsworth"
Author:
Festa, Thomas.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Ortiz, Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism, 77–97.
Annotation:

In reconsidering William Wordsworth's relationship to Shakespeare, argues that he was aware of the historical situatedness of his imagination through his appropriation of Shakespeare.

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Title:
"'Mature poets steal': Charlotte Smith's Appropriations of Shakespeare"
Author:
Currie, Joy.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Ortiz, Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism, 99–119.
Annotation:

In examining Charlotte Smith's allusions to and quotations from Shakespeare, finds that she strategically appropriates Shakespeare claim authority for her use of natural history and political views as well as "equality with male writers."

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Title:
"The Sublimity of Hamlet in Emily Dickinson's Poem, 'He Fumbles at Your Soul.'"
Author:
Noble, Marianne.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Ortiz, Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism, 121–36.
Annotation:

Studies allusion to Hamlet in Emily Dickinson's "He Fumbles at Your Soul," suggesting that the sublimity of Shakespeare in his interplay of sound and sense also appears in Dickinson's poem.

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Title:
"'The translucence of eternity in time': Shakespeare and Coleridge's Zapolya"
Author:
Esposti, Paola Degli.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Ortiz, Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism, 139–60.
Annotation:

Focuses on S. T. Coleridge's reworking of elements from Winter's Tale and Cymbeline in Zapolya, arguing that his appropriation of Shakespeare is an effort to ground his political commentary in universal truths.

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Title:
"Contextual Hauntings: Shakespearean Ghosts on the Gothic Stage"
Author:
Saggini, Francesca.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Ortiz, Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism, 161–82.
Annotation:

Draws on Shakespeare's on-stage ghosts in examining James Boaden's Fontainville Forest, a theatrical adaptation of Ann Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest. Argues the presence of the Shakespearean ghost in Gothic drama shows Shakespearean influence on the arts in the 1790s.

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Title:
"Shakespeare Reception in France: The Case of Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet"
Author:
Sen, Suddhaseel.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Ortiz, Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism, 183–204.
Annotation:

Examines the Romantic French tradition of adapting Hamlet as a response to debates over neoclassical aesthetics, focusing on the French adaptation by Jean-François Ducis and the musical treatment of Hamlet and Ophelia in Ambroise Thomas's opera Hamlet(q.v.).

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