商品簡介
The series this volume is a part of profiles people who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding, and reception of Shakespeare, both in Britain and internationally. The goal is to widen the sense of who has contributed to Shakespeare's afterlives by including not only actors and scholars but novelists, poets, playwrights, and composers. Each volume highlights a particular cluster of issues, or a period of time. British and Australian scholars of English literature here look at four 19th-century British writers all of whom were frequently characterized as Shakespearean. Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy were all novelists, and though all but Dickens also wrote poetry, it is for their novels that they were compared to Shakespeare. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Adrian Poole is Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK and a Fellow of Trinity College, UK.
His books include Tragedy: A very short introduction (OUP) and Shakespeare and the Victorians (Arden).
