Victorian Urban Settings

Essays on the Nineteenth-century City and Its Contexts

• Author(s): Debra N. Mancoff, Dale J. Trela,
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Pages: 247
• ISBN_10: 0815319495
  ISBN_13: 9780815319498
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Great Britain / General , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ,

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Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.