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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Christopher Salamone This article seeks to add nuance to the story of Shakespeare's canonization in the eighteenth century, a story that has hitherto neglected the part played by the period's poetic miscellanies. Are there patterns in the form, quantity, and selection of Shakespearean texts within...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Yael Shapira This essay considers the limited presence of the dead body in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto . The near absence of gory death from the novella is striking, given both its intensive borrowing from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and its status as the founding work of the Gothic tradition...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 54–81.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Aparna Gollapudi In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, John Bell commissioned hundreds of actor portraits in dramatic roles, which were published as book illustrations in the series Bell’s Shakespeare and Bell’s British Theatre. These portraits contributed significantly to the emergent...
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 11. Peter Scheemakers, Shakespeare Monument (1741), marble, Westminster Abbey, London. Courtesy Westminster Abbey.
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 12. John Cheere , William Shakespeare (ca. 1749), bronzed plaster statuette, 49.2 cm × 31.2 cm, Castle Museum, York, YORAG: 2004.23. Courtesy York Castle Museum.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 3–13.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Edmund G. C. King Duke University Press 2008 R
Pope’s 1723 – 25 Shakespear, Classical Editing,
and Humanistic Reading Practices
Edmund G. C. King
University of Auckland
In his 1756 Proposals...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Janine Barchas; Kristina Straub “Curating Will & Jane” provides an overview of the exhibition, Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity , opening at the Folger Shakespeare Library in August 2016. Shakespeare and Austen became literary celebrities roughly 200 years after...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 216–220.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Jack Lynch Vanessa Cunningham. Shakespeare and Garrick (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2008). Pp. vii + 231. 9 ills. $99 Reiko Oya. Representing Shakespearean Tragedy: Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2007). Pp. xii + 244. 20 ills. $95 Stuart Sillars...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 101–114.
Published: 01 September 2019
...- wash that should not have been published.1 Much remains to be done with 1 0 2 Eighteenth-Century Life Cibber. Very few people realize that his plays were unquestionably among the most performed on the eighteenth- century London stage. Only Shakespeare s plays were performed more times than Cibber s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Figure 11. Peter Scheemakers, Shakespeare Monument (1741), marble, Westminster Abbey, London. Courtesy Westminster Abbey. ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 43–64.
Published: 01 April 2000
..., and that historicization and canonization are in some way linked.2
Several contributors to the debate have stressed as a determining fac-
tor the historical sense that infused criticism and scholarship at mid-cen-
tury, when writers such as Shakespeare and Spenser were awarded de-
tailed attention previously...
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Sancho Panza in Eighteenth-Century English Theater: Disrupting the Path of the English Knight-Errant
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (3): 123–143.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., English dramatic imitations and adaptations of Don Quixote were many and popular. The lost play Cardenno or Cardenna , which has been attributed to Fletcher and Shakespeare, is thought to have premiered in 1613, only a year after Don Quixote was first translated into English. 5 Other dramatic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 75–95.
Published: 01 September 2020
... in this domain remain largely unexplored. War- words, 7 6 Eighteenth-Century Life and a metalanguage of words for words about war, pace the OED, remain absent. The diction of trench warfare is, of course, anachronistic, though trenching war (which, in a citation from Shakespeare s Henry IV, appears...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 20–56.
Published: 01 September 2017
... hard thinking about the
solidity of the “proof ” we offer in support of the conclusions we proclaim.2
As an exemplum horribile I offer “biographies” of William Shake-
speare.3 The facts we possess were laid out by Sam Schoenbaum in Wil-
liam Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (1975...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 30–63.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., for the whole of the work, on literary
representations of Jews, particularly Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Her
treatment of Jacob utilizes Shylock’s most famous speech while it reverses
Shylock’s character to establish Jacob’s own. Michael Ragussis believes that
Edgeworth understands the “critical...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 37–64.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., and,
furthermore, suits the newly admitted types of knowledge; ten articles refer
to him. He appears as a character in the biographies of four of his liter-
ary acquaintances: Churchill, Garrick, Goldsmith, and Savage. His work
is mentioned in the articles “Shakespeare” and “Printing,” and under...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 14–28.
Published: 01 April 2008
...:
But how is it
That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?2
Shakespeare’s “abysm” here lies behind James’s recurrent image of the “gulf ”
of time, to suggest what lies beyond the edge of living memory.
James was born in 1843, only as long...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 56–82.
Published: 01 April 2007
... refl ected the
European point of view toward amorous relationships, which were usually
thought to occur between men and women of high social status. A represen-
tative list of English works includes minor poems by George Herbert, John
Cleveland, and Eldred Revett; tragedies such as Shakespeare’s...
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“The Call of the Popular” Revisited; Or, English Literary History's Resistance to Balladry Corrected
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 138–143.
Published: 01 January 2009
... construction
of the Shakespeare “myth” by David Garrick, “one of the most important anti-
quarians of his day” (112). Newman thus brings into conjunction better-known
figures in ballad study, such as Robert Burns and Thomas Percy, with impor-
tant but less-studied precursors and contexts. These chapters...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 35–62.
Published: 01 January 2023
... and publishing at midcentury. Orrery's interactions with Lennox are associated with the publication of three of her works: The Female Quixote (1752), which I will treat in connection with patronage; and Shakespear Illustrated (1753), and The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy (1759), which I will discuss...
