Quoting Shakespeare: Form and Culture in Early Modern DramaUniversity of Nebraska Press, 2000 - 268 pàgines 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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... readers are unpersuaded by crit- ical arguments that ask them to see plays as thorough , and consistent , alle ... Reading quotations will help us comprehend the partiality of these plays ' incorporation of other texts , people , and ...
... readers , instead of to authors ( themselves , of course , readers ) , in relation not to the writing of a text , but to the critical reproduction of texts . We have moved from a " writerly " intertextuality to a “ readerly ...
... reading suggested in Quoting Shake- speare is quite uncommon . Most readers prefer a self - sufficient text , find- ing such texts adequate , and often for good reason . The more extensive the apparatus connected with a text ( footnotes ...
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