Article: Shakespeare's ghost and Felicia Hemans's The Vespers of Palermo: nineteenth-century readings of the page and feminist meanings for the stage.

Act I

During the early nineteenth century, there was a restoration of Shakespeare on the page in the form of reading anthologies and critical reviews as well as on the stage in productions that, like the printed Shakespeare, attempted to restore the "essential" Shakespeare that had been subsumed by eighteenth-century adaptations and editorial practices (Taylor 115-33). (1) For Romantic writers, Shakespeare was the ideal poet, unshackled by Neoclassical conventions that they sought to reject. (2) According the Michael Dobson, Shakespeare had already been elevated to Britain's "national poet," a construction of the Restoration and eighteenth century that Romantic ...

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