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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.
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Imperialistic Representations and Spectatorial Reception in Shakespeare Wallah
Modern Drama, 2002Recent scholarship has sought to revise critical claims regarding the universal and transcendental status accorded to Shakespeare in India through an examination of three important aspects pertaining to the construction and representation of the bard: first, situating the history of Shakespeare in the context of colonial power relations, scholars have
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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 ...
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Aesthetics of Reception: Shakespeare Criticism down the Ages
Journal of English Language Teaching, 2017An anonymous critic once declared, with a little bit of pardonable jingoism, that if all the writings on Hamlet were to be collected and piled one upon another, it would touch the nearest planet! Fun apart, none can deny that of all writers in this cosmos, it is the Bardof-Avon who has elicited the widest response to his works from all over the world ...
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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 ...
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Shakespeare, Shipwrecks, and the Great War: Shakespeare's Reception in Wartime and Post-War Britain
Shakespeare, 2014Early twentieth-century writing abundantly employs the combined metaphor of tempests and shipwrecks at sea, which is often applied to the Great War. Of special interest are those instances where the metaphor occurs in conjunction with Shakespeare, his work, and his afterlife. On the one hand, this practice reveals the ease with which Shakespeare's work
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No profit but the name': the Polish reception of Shakespeare's plays
2021Nie ...
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Shakespeare's Early Reception and Translation in Italy
2002The book outlines the history of the Italian response to Shakespeare between the 18th and the 19th century, moving from the first, scanty references to Shakespeare to the production of a substantial body of translations and stage adaptations of his work.
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