Foreword; N.Auerbach Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors References List of Illustrations Introduction; A.Poole Othello Redux?: Scott's Kenilworth and the trickiness of race on the nineteenth-century stage; D.E.Henderson 'To make the situation natural': Othello at Mid-Century J.Glavin Dickens and Hamlet; J.John Shakespeare at the Great Exhibition of 1851; C.Pettitt Implicit and Explicit Reason: George Eliot and Shakespeare; P.Davis 'Where did she get hold of that?' Shakespeare in The Tragic Muse ; P.Horne Shakespeare's Weeds: Tennyson, Elegy and Allusion; R.Douglas-Fairhurst Shakespeare and the Death of Tennyson; C. Decker 'The Names': Robert Browning's 'Shakesperean Show'; D.Karlin Mary Cowden Clarke: Marriage, Gender and the Victorian Woman Critic of Shakespeare; A.Thompson& S.Roberts Shakespeare, the Actress and the Prostitute: Professional Respectability and Private Shame in George Vandenhoff's Leaves from an Actor's Notebook ; P.Aebischer 'The clue of Shakespearian power over me': Ruskin, Shakespeare, and Influence; F.O'Gorman Index