Quoting Shakespeare: Form and Culture in Early Modern DramaUniversity of Nebraska Press, 2000 - 268 strán (strany) 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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... literary composition , a version that usefully affirms the role of such objects is that of the Russian poet and critic Vladimir Mayakovsky . Mayakovsky described writing as kind of bricolage when he wrote in How to Make Verse ( 1926 ) ...
... literary sources , a model in effect parceled out between the old historicism and the new criticism , blocked such a question . As a freestanding , self - sufficient , disinterested art - work produced by a solitary genius , King Lear ...
... literary creation.61 But if we think of a writer like Thomas Hey- wood , who claimed to have had a hand ( or at least a “ main finger " ) in making two hundred and twenty plays , a graded scale of imitatio that values intensively self ...