Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism written by Joseph M. Ortiz and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How theatre directors, actors, poets, women writers, political philosophers, gallery owners and other professionals in the nineteenth century turned to Shakespeare in myriad ways to advance their own political, artistic, or commercial agendas is the subject of this collection. Whether Whig or Tory, male or female, intellectual or commercial, Romantic writers found in Shakespeare a powerful medium through which to claim authority for their particular interests.