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“Shakespears Geist.” Lenz and the Reception of Shakespeare in Germany
1994Let me begin with one of the cliches of literary history: that the Sturm and Drang idolised Shakespeare. It produced, according to Simon Williams, “an outbreak of Shakespeare-worship in Germany that has rarely if ever been equalled elsewhere”.1 I do not wish to disprove this.
J. Guthrie
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Shakespeare Videogames, Adaptation/Appropriation, and Collaborative Reception
Games and Theatre in Shakespeare's England, 2021This essay analyzes two Shakespeare-based video games to revisit longstanding assumptions regarding Shakespearean adaptation and appropriation. In it, I pay close attention to the role of the player to explore reception as a collaborative process in ...
Geoffrey Way
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The critical reception of Shakespeare’s tragedies
2003This chapter offers a sketch in broad strokes of some of the main trends in critical reaction to and theories about Shakespeare's tragedies since the late seventeenth century. By this time the culture of Shakespeare's age had come to seem crude and barbarous to educated Londoners, distanced as it was by the restoration of Charles II in 1660, the ...
R. Foakes, C. McEachern
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The Reception of My William Shakespeare
1975The reception of my work on Shakespeare is an interesting story in itself, and one that is symptomatic of our time, not only of its literary life, but of academic and intellectual life in general, in the decline of standards, the lack of concern for what is true, the inability to recognise it when put forward by a leading authority on the age of ...
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Cult and criticism: Ritual in the European reception of Shakespeare
Neohelicon, 1990The phrase 'Shakespeare cult' is one of those terminological counters we play with far too thoughtlessly both in the technical discourse of our discipline and in the more casual language games of the educated layman. A counter assumed to be convertible into practically every currency, it is hardly ever considered worth defining, and even less do we ...
P. Dávidházi
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“A Feast of Languages”: William Shakespeare’s Reception of Ancient Rhetoric
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric, 2021exaly +2 more sources