Quoting Shakespeare : form and culture in early modern drama / Douglas Bruster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruster, Douglas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

Intertextuality.

Literary form.

Quotations in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

contents

acknowledgments

a note on texts

Introduction

Quoting Shakespeare

Quoting Marlowe's Shepherd

The Agency of Quotation in Shakespearean Comedy

Quoting the Playhouse in The Tempest

Quotation and Madwomen's Language

A Renaissance of Quotation

Afterword

notes

index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8032-1925-3

OCLC:

50103456