Quoting Shakespeare: Form and Culture in Early Modern Drama ISBN-13: 9780803213036

ISBN-13: 9780803213036

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Bruster, Douglas

Details: William Shakespeare is perhaps the most frequently quoted author of the English-speaking world. His plays, in turn, “quote” a wide variety of sources, from books and ballads to persons and events. In this dynamic study of Shakespeares plays, Douglas Bruster demonstrates that such borrowing can illuminate the world in which Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights lived and worked, while also shedding light on later cultures that quote his plays.
In contrast to the New Historicisms sometimes arbitrary linkage of literary works with elements drawn from the surrounding culture, Quoting Shakespeare focuses on the resources that writers used in making their works. Bruster shows how this borrowing can give us valuable insight into the cultural, historical, and political positions of writers and their works. Because Shakespeares plays have often been quoted by other writers, this study also examines what subsequent uses of Shakespeares plays reveal about the writers and cultures that use them. In this way, Quoting Shakespeare insists that literary production and reception are both integral to a historical approach to literature.

Release Date: 01-12-2000

Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English

Features:

• Used Book in Good Condition

Number Of Pages: 268