Quoting Shakespeare: Form and Culture in Early Modern DramaUniversity of Nebraska Press, 2000 - Počet stran: 268 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 Shakespeare's 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 Historicism's 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 Shakespeare's plays have often been quoted by other writers, this study also examines what subsequent uses of Shakespeare's 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. |
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... authors read and to how they used and replied to precursors and their texts . Reading quota- tions can enhance our understanding of literary works , authors , and cul- tures by foregrounding the positions in texts , and of texts , over ...
... authors chose for their works — materials demonstrably available to and employed by them , hence demonstrably a part of their culture — we can add a meaningful fo- cus to our criticism . Such focus may seem to take attention away from ...
... authors runs contrary to the fact that early modern playwrights commonly borrowed from decidedly noncanonical texts and authors . Greene's interest in erudite and creative imitation works well , for example , for such authors as ...