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Shakespearean Dickens

Tracing Dickens' interest in Shakespeare through his own reading and performance and through numerous theatrical, literary and artistic sources, this 1996 book discusses the use of Shakespeare's words and ideas to enrich all aspects of Dickens' writing. Included is a catalogue of one thousand references to Shakespeare's plays and poems taken from the full corpus of Dickens' work.
Print Book, English, 1995
Cambridge University Press, New York, 1995
pages cm
9780521455268, 052145526X
86003638
List of illustrations; Preface; A note on the text and acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. 'A Shakespearean Lot': 1. 'Treading in the steps': early Shakespearean influences; 2. 'At his tongue's end': Dickens's remarkable memory; 3. 'Eloquent associations': W. C. Macready and Daniel Maclise; 4. 'As if I had been another man': Dickens as actor-manager; 5. 'The noblest of all dramatists': Dickens as theatre critic and editor; Part II. 'All the Removes and Definitions of Shakespeare's Touchstone': 6. 'Of imagination all compact': Dickens's aesthetic principles; 7. Definition of critical concepts; 8. Verbal 'fireworks': typical functions of Dickens's Shakespearean references; 9. 'The web I have spun': Shakespeareana in Dombey and Son and David Copperfield; Part III. 'Signs and Tokens' of Shakespeare: Preface to the catalogue; Catalogue of Dickens's references to Shakespeare; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.