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Shakespeare's afterlife in the Royal Collection
This edited volume explores a series of objects in the Royal Collection as a means of assessing the interrelated histories of the British royal family and the Shakespearean afterlife across four centuries. Between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth, Shakespeare became entrenched as the English national poet. Over the same period, the monarchy sought repeatedly to demonstrate its centrality to British nationhood. By way of close analysis of a selection of objects from the Royal Collection, this volume argues that the royal family and the Shakespearean afterlife were far more closely interwoven than has previously been realized.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1616 -- 1 The 'Disappointment' of Charles I's Second Folio -- 1700 -- 2 Henry V and Early Hanoverian Self-Fashioning: William Kent's triptych of scenes from the life of Henry V -- 3 'A Wild and Unruly Youth' -- 4 Moral Painting -- 5 David Garrick and the President's Chair -- 6 Queen Charlotte and the Royal Narratives of Boydell's Shakespeare Prints -- 7 George III and the Other `Mad King': Sir Lucas Pepys's report on George III's health -- 8 Disability and Mutable Spectatorship: Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of Mary Robinson -- 9 Fake and Authentic Shakespeare: The diaries of Joseph Farington -- 1800 -- 10 `Well-Authenticated Blocks': Three toothpick boxes made from `Shakespeare's Mulberry Tree' -- Why Did George IV Own a Shakespeare First Folio? -- 12 From Performance to Portfolio: The anonymous print `Pistol's a cuckold' -- 13 Hamlet Disowned -- 14 Princess Victoria and the Cult of Celebrity -- 15 Shakespeare in the Rubens Room -- 16 Monument and Montage: A photomontage of two hundred and sixty-three actors -- 17 Puck and the Prince of Wales: Harriet Goodhue Hosmer's sculpture of Puck -- 18 Much Ado About Tapestry: A panel made by the Old Windsor Tapestry Manufactory -- 19 Disappearances and the Durbar -- 1900 -- 20 Queen Mary and the Church of the Holy Trinity: A Faberg box -- 21 Shakespeare in Miniature: Shakespeare editions in Queen Mary's Dolls' House -- 22 Shashibiya Shakespeare: Zhu Shenghao and Yu Er-chang's Mandarin Shakespeare editions -- 23 Cultural (Dis)inheritance and the Decline of Empire in The Prince's Choice: Prince Charles's `personal selections' from Shakespeare -- Bibliography -- Index.
edited by Sally Barnden, Gordon McMullan, Kate Retford and Kirsten Tambling.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Shakespeare in the Royal Collection (Series)