Shakespeare / Johann Gottfried Herder ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Gregory Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803.

Contributor:

Moore, Gregory, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature and art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the same without the influence of Herder's "Shakespeare" (1773). One of the most important and original works in the history of literary criticism, this passionate essay pioneered a new, historicist approach to cultural artifacts by arguing that they should be judged not by their conformity to a set of conventions imported from another time and place, but by the effectiveness of their response to their own historical and cultural context. Rejecting the authority of a dominant and stifling French neoclassicism that judged eighteenth-century plays by the criteria of Aristotle, Herder's "Shakespeare" signaled a break with the Enlightenment, the approach of Romanticism, and the arrival of a distinctly modern form of aesthetic appreciation. With a vivid new translation and a fascinating introduction by Gregory Moore, this edition of Herder's classic will speak to today's readers with undiminished power and persuasiveness.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Moore, Gregory

Shakespeare / Herder, Johann Gottfried

Editor's Notes

Index

Notes:

"First published in 1773, as one of five contributions to a pamphlet edited by Herder himself and entitled Von deutscher Art und Kunst (On German Character and Art)"--T.p. verso.

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613163608

9781283163606

1283163608

9781400828258

1400828252

OCLC:

741491880