Ruskin, the Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture Book

List of Tables and Figures vii

Acknowledgements x

Notes on Contributors xi

Speaking Pictures: The Victorian Stage and Visual Culture Katherine Newey 1

Part I Ruskin and the Theatre

1 John Ruskin, The Olympian Painters and the Amateur Stage Jeffrey Richards 19

2 Ruskin at the Savoy: The Gilbert and Sullivan Operas as Indications of the Victorian Popular Reception of Ruskin J. A. Hilton 42

3 Ruskinian Moral Authority and Theatre's Ideal Woman Rachel Dickinson 58

4 Re-interpreting Ruskin and Browning's Dramatic 'Art-poems' Andrew Leng 74

5 Ruskin and the National Theatre Anselm Heinrich 97

6 The First Theatrical Pre-Raphaelite? Ruskin's Molière Andrew Tate 114

Part II The Theatre and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century

7 The Britannia Theatre: Visual Culture and the Repertoire of a Popular Theatre Janice Norwood 135

8 Supernumeraries: Decorating the Late-Victorian Stage with Lots (& Lots & Lots) of Live Bodies David Mayer 154

9 'A truer peep at Old Venice': The Merchant of Venice on the Victorian Stage Richard Foulkes 169

10 The Photographic Portraiture of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry Shearer West 187

11 'Auntie, can you do that?' or 'Ibsen in Brixton': Representing the Victorian Stage through Cartoon and Caricature Jim Davis 216

Index 239