Studies in Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination
Author: A. J. Bate
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Published: 1983
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Published: 1983
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Bate
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough it is well known that the Romantics were obsessed with Shakespeare, little attention has been paid to the ways in which he influenced their creative practices and their theories of the imagination. This new work finally presents the fascinating picture of how the Romantics read Shakespeare and responded to the implications of his work for their own poetry. The book provides the first full critical discussion of Shakespeare and Wordsworth, explores the influence of the plays on the poetry of Blake and Coleridge, and offers a fresh account of Shakespeare's powerful presence in the letters and poems of Keats and Byron, and in Shelley's dramas. Taking issue with prevalent deconstructionist theories and Harold Bloom's ideas on "the anxiety of influence," Bate instead carefully illustrates the ways in which initial attempts at blind imitation were transformed into graceful poetic echo and allusion.
Author: Joseph M. Ortiz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 135190079X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea of Shakespearean genius and sublimity is usually understood to be a product of the Romantic period, promulgated by poets such as Coleridge and Byron who promoted Shakespeare as the supreme example of literary genius and creative imagination. However, the picture looks very different when viewed from the perspective of the myriad theater directors, actors, poets, political philosophers, gallery owners, and other professionals in the nineteenth century who turned to Shakespeare to advance their own political, artistic, or commercial interests. Often, as in John Kemble’s staging of The Winter’s Tale at Drury Lane or John Boydell’s marketing of paintings in his Shakespeare Gallery, Shakespeare provided a literal platform on which both artists and entrepreneurs could strive to influence cultural tastes and points of view. At other times, Romantic writers found in Shakespeare’s works a set of rhetorical and theatrical tools through which to form their own public personae, both poetic and political. Women writers in particular often adapted Shakespeare to express their own political and social concerns. Taken together, all of these critical and aesthetic responses attest to the remarkable malleability of the Shakespearean corpus in the Romantic period. As the contributors show, Romantic writers of all persuasions”Whig and Tory, male and female, intellectual and commercial”found in Shakespeare a powerful medium through which to claim authority for their particular interests.
Author: E. Pechter
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-06-06
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0230119360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Romantics invented Shakespeare studies, and in losing contact with our origins, we have not been able to develop an adequate alternative foundation on which to build our work. This book asserts that among Shakespeareans at present, the level of conviction required to sustain a healthy critical practice is problematically if not dangerously low, and the qualities which the Romantics valued in an engagement with Shakespeare are either ignored these days or fundamentally misunderstood.
Author: Jonathan Bate
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0198183240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his favourite poet, Ovid, examining the full range of Shakespeare's works.
Author: Younglim Han
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780838638736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese two criticisms are based on the presumption that only a socially and intellectually elite reader is able to view the author's language in terms of its organic relationship with the text as a whole. The Romantics focused on the interpretive reproduction of Shakespeare through sympathetic identification with his characters."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: David Scott Kastan
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 430
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kate Rumbold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-03-08
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1316477894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe eighteenth century has long been acknowledged as a pivotal period in Shakespeare's reception, transforming a playwright requiring 'improvement' into a national poet whose every word was sacred. Scholars have examined the contribution of performances, adaptations, criticism and editing to this process of transformation, but the crucial role of fiction remains overlooked. Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel reveals for the first time the prevalence, and the importance, of fictional characters' direct quotations from Shakespeare. Quoting characters ascribe emotional and moral authority to Shakespeare, redeploy his theatricality, and mock banal uses of his words; by shaping in this way what is considered valuable about Shakespeare, the novel accrues new cultural authority of its own. Shakespeare underwrites, and is underwritten by, the eighteenth-century novel, and this book reveals the lasting implications for both of their reputations.
Author: Hallett Smith
Publisher: Huntington Library Press
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780873280525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmith deals with those plays from the late period of Shakespeare's career that are not comedies, tragedies or histories: Pericles; Cymbeline; The Winter's Tale; The Tempest and The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Author: Jonathan Sachs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-02-04
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0195376129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work argues that Rome is relevant to the Romantic period not as the continuation of an earlier neoclassicism, but rather as a concept that is simultaneously transformed and transformative: transformed in the sense that new models of historical thinking produced a changed understandings of historicity itself.