Opening book details…
Can I read The Ghost behind the Masks: The Victorian Poets and Shakespeare (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) on EtoBox?
The Ghost behind the Masks: The Victorian Poets and Shakespeare (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) by William David Shaw is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Ghost behind the Masks: The Victorian Poets and Shakespeare (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) about?
<p>In <i>The Ghost behind the Masks, </i> 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 quoti
Who reads The Ghost behind the Masks: The Victorian Poets and Shakespeare (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- William David Shaw
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781306547642
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
More by William David Shaw
Browse all works by William David Shaw
Similar books
- The VIctorian Poets — Frederic E. Faverty (1968)
- The Major Victorian Poets: Reconsiderations. — Armstrong, Isobel. (1969)
- The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume V: Victorian Prose and Poetry — Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975; Bloom, Harold (1973)
- The Victorian Poets: A Guide to Research, Second edition — Jerome H. Buckley, William E. Fredeman, Park Honan, Clyde K. Hyder, E. D. H. Johnson, John Pick, Lionel Stevenson, Michael Timko (1968)
- Victorian Literature and Culture (Introductions to British Literature and Culture) — Maureen Moran (2006)
- Victorian and Edwardian poets: Tennyson to Yeats — edited by W. H. Auden and N. H. Pearson (1950)