Shakespeare and Quotation

Cambridge University Press, 4/26/2018
EAN 9781107134249, ISBN10: 1107134242

Hardcover, 322 pages, 23.6 x 15.8 x 2 cm
Language: English

Shakespeare is the most frequently quoted English author of all time. Quotations appear everywhere, from the epigraphs of novels to the mottoes on coffee cups. But Shakespeare was also a frequent quoter himself - of classical and contemporary literature, of the Bible, of snatches of popular songs and proverbs. This volume brings together an international team of scholars to trace the rich history of quotation from Shakespeare's own lifetime to the present day. Exploring a wide range of media, including Romantic poetry, theatre criticism, novels by Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Ian McEwan, political oratory, propaganda, advertising, drama, film and digital technology, the chapters draw fresh connections between Shakespeare's own practices of creative reworking and the quotation of his work in new and traditional forms. Richly illustrated and featuring an Afterword by Margreta de Grazia, the collection tells a new story of the making and remaking of Shakespeare's plays and poems.

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
General introduction
Part I. Shakespeare and Early Modern Quotation
Introduction
1. Shakespeare and the early modern culture of quotation James P. Bednarz
2. Shakespeare and Sententiae
the use of quotation in Lucrece Kevin Petersen
3. 'The ears of profiting'
listening to Falstaff's biblical quotations Beatrice Groves
4. Quoting Hamlet Douglas Bruster
Part II. Quoting Shakespeare, 1700–2000
Introduction
5. 'Shakespeare says …'
the anthology and the eighteenth-century novel Kate Rumbold
6. Pope's Shakespeare and poetic quotation in the early eighteenth century Brean Hammond
7. Shakespeare quotation in the Romantic Age Fiona Ritchie and R. S. White
8. Quoting Shakespeare in the British novel from Dickens to Wodehouse Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
9. Pedagogy and propaganda
the uses of quotation, 1750–1945 Frans De Bruyn, Gail Marshall and Ton Hoenselaars
10. The impossibility of quotation
twentieth-century literature Craig Raine
11. Quoting Shakespeare in twentieth-century film Toby Malone
Part III. Quoting Shakespeare Now
Introduction
12. Creative writing
quoting Shakespeare in theory and in practice Julie Maxwell
13. Quoting Shakespeare in contemporary poetry and prose Christy Desmet
14. Mis/quotation in constrained writing Peter Kirwan
15. 'Beauty too rich for use?'
Shakespeare and advertising Graham Holderness
16. Digital technology and the future of reception history Stephen O'Neill, Balz Engler and Regula Trillini Hohl
Afterword Margreta de Grazia.