The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines 3 Volume Paperback Set
The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines 3 Volume Paperback Set
£113.00
GBPMary Cowden Clarke (1809–98) was the daughter of the publisher Vincent Novello. She was a noted Shakespearian scholar who produced a complete concordance to his works in 1845, and her fascination with the plays led to her publishing in 1850 a series of imaginative accounts of the girlhood of some of his heroines. Her motive was 'to imagine the possible circumstances and influences of scene, event, and associate, surrounding the infant life of his heroines, which might have conduced to originate and foster those germs of character recognised in their maturity as by him developed; to conjecture what might have been the first imperfect dawnings of that which he has shown us in the meridian blaze of perfection'. These 'prequels' offer a back-story which is surprising in its subversive interpretation of the plays and especially of the role of the 'hero'.
Product details
February 2010Multiple copy pack
9781108001250
1478 pages
250 × 323 × 67 mm
2.18kg
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Volume I:
- 1. Portia
- 2. The thane's daughter
- 3. Helena
- 4. Desdemona
- 5. Meg and Alice
- Volume II:
- 1. Isabella: the votaress
- 2. Katharina and Bianca: the shrew and the demure
- 3. Ophelia: the rose of Elsinore
- 4. Rosalind and Celia: the friends
- 5. Juliet: the white dove of Verona
- 6. Illustrative notes
- Volume III:
- 1. Beatrice and Hero
- 2. Olivia
- 3. Hermione
- 4. Viola
- 5. Imogen.
