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Is Shakespeare better read than seen and heard? Is it better think of him as a poet or a dramatist? Is the afterlife of his works and words an inspiration to later artists or an inhibition? Is his continued popularity a sign of cultural health or stagnation? Is he an honest ghost? Are these good questions?
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‘Frances Anne Kemble’ (1893), in Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers, ed. by Leon Edel, Library of America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), p. 1079.
See Christopher Murray, ‘James Sheridan Knowles: the Victorian Shakespeare?’, in Shakespeare and the Victorian Stage, ed. by Richard Foulkes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 164–79. 3. The George Eliot Letters, ed. by Gordon S. Haight, 9 vols (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954–78), III, 152.
The George Eliot Letters, ed. by Gordon S. Haight, 9 vols (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954–78), III, 152.
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Poole, A. (2003). Introduction. In: Marshall, G., Poole, A. (eds) Victorian Shakespeare, Volume 2. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504141_1
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