Tracing Dickens' interest in Shakespeare through his own reading and performance and through numerous theatrical, literary, and artistic sources, Shakespeare and Dickens argues that imaginative transformations of Shakespeare's words and ideas enrich all aspects of Dickens' writing, including aesthetic principles, language, imagery, plot, theme, tone, structure, and characterization. The book proceeds to examine theoretical ideas about influence and allusion as aspects of style, and analyzes ways in which Dickens typically employs references to Shakespeare. The final section catalogues approximately one thousand references to Shakespeare's plays and poems drawn from Dickens' fiction, essays, letters, and speeches.
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Tracing Dickens' interest in Shakespeare through his own reading and performance and through numerous theatrical, literary, and artistic sources, Shakespearean Dickens argues that imaginative transformations of Shakespeare's words and ideas enrich all aspects of Dickens' writing, including aesthetic principles, language, imagery, plot, theme, tone, structure, and characterization. The book proceeds to examine theoretical ideas about influence and allusion as aspects of style, and analyses ways in which Dickens typically employs references to Shakespeare. The final section catalogues approximately one thousand references to Shakespeare's plays and poems drawn from Dickens' fiction, essays, letters, and speeches.
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One of the childhood events to which Peter Ackroyd attaches particular significance is the occasion when Dickens was taken by his father to see a house at Gad's Hill, the house which the successful author would eventually purchase as his country home. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eloquent associations, queer small boy, descriptive headline, allusion studies, heath scenes, girdle round the earth, complex references, moving accidents, potent art, portable library, haunted man, merry wives, banquet scene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
David Copperfield, John Forster, Charles Dickens, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, Midsummer Night's Dream, Daniel Maclise, Cowden Clarke, Gad's Hill, Lady Macbeth, Mark Lemon, Julius Caesar, Royal Academy, The Merchant, Twelfth Night, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, New York, Wilkie Collins, Speeches General Theatrical Fund, Sadler's Wells, Shakespeare Society, Leigh Hunt, Richard the Third, The Dickensian New!
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One of the childhood events to which Peter Ackroyd attaches particular significance is the occasion when Dickens was taken by his father to see a house at Gad's Hill, the house which the successful author would eventually purchase as his country home. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eloquent associations, queer small boy, descriptive headline, allusion studies, heath scenes, girdle round the earth, complex references, moving accidents, potent art, portable library, haunted man, merry wives, banquet scene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
David Copperfield, John Forster, Charles Dickens, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, Midsummer Night's Dream, Daniel Maclise, Cowden Clarke, Gad's Hill, Lady Macbeth, Mark Lemon, Julius Caesar, Royal Academy, The Merchant, Twelfth Night, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, New York, Wilkie Collins, Speeches General Theatrical Fund, Sadler's Wells, Shakespeare Society, Leigh Hunt, Richard the Third, The Dickensian New!
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- Our Mutual Friend Pb (BBC) by Charles Dickens on 10 pages
- The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens on 8 pages
- Sketches by Boz (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on 7 pages
- As You Like It (Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 6 pages
- From Donne to Marvell (Belle Sauvage Library: Guide to English Literature) by Boris Ford on 5 pages
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- Recreating Jane Austen by John Wiltshire in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by John O. Jordan on page 203
- Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness by David Lee Miller in Back Matter
- Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama by Marianne Novy in Back Matter
- Victorian Shakespeare, Volume 2: Literature and Culture by Gail Marshall in Back Matter
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