GAIL MARSHALL is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Actresses on the Victorian Stage (1998) and Victorian Fiction (2002), and is the editor of George Eliot (2003). She is currently writing a monograph on the relationship between Victorian women and Shakespeare. ADRIAN POOLE is Reader in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College. His books include Tragedy: Shakespeare and the Greek Example (1987), Henry James (1991), and (co-edited with Jeremy Maule) The

• 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

'Victorian Shakespeare is not free from a tendency to make history a refuge from judgement, but it does richly advance our understanding of how Shakespeare made us and how we have made him.' - Times Literary Supplement