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Shakespeare and Manchester: A Victorian Powerhouse

Shakespeare and Manchester: A Victorian Powerhouse

Nickson, Ian Martin

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral World HistoryShakespeare

ISBN10: 1526193183
ISBN13: 9781526193186
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This engagingly written book provides the first comprehensive explanation of Manchester's innovative and enduring contributions to the development of Shakespearean theatre in the nineteenth century. Beyond repairing this gap in theatre history, it documents Manchester's collective adoption of Shakespeare's works as a means of providing moral guidance to the world's first industrial city and of achieving political change through non-violent means.

This account of Manchester's reciprocal engagement with Shakespeare, situated within Victorian cultural, social, political and economic trends, is told through the careers of seven people - John Knowles, George Dawson, Charles Calvert, Henry Irving, Alfred Darbyshire, Bishop James Fraser and Rosa Grindon.

Both a theatrical and a cultural history, it examines the makers of an urban, libertarian, Mancunian Shakespeare using hitherto unexplored primary sources, principally a rich trove of digitised newspapers.

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