Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Malone

Great Shakespeareans
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8264-2086-2
Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Great Shakespeareans

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.

In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson and Edmond Malone to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject’s intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rawson, Claude

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Preface, Peter Holland and Adrian Poole (University of Notre Dame, USA and University of Cambridge, UK)
Introduction, Claude Rawson (Yale University, USA)
1. John Dryden, Harold Love (Monash University, Australia)
2. Alexander Pope, Simon Jarvis (University of Cambridge, UK)
3. Samuel Johnson, Freya Johnstone (University of Oxford, UK)
4. Edmond Malone, Marcus Walsh (University of Liverpool, UK)
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University, USA. He is the Delegate for Literature and Language, Oxford University Press, New York, and a Founding General Editor of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. He is the General Editor of the Blackwell Critical Biographies and the Unwin Critical Library. Rawson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Past President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He has lectured widely in Europe, the Americas, Australasia and the Far East, and has written numerous articles and reviews both in specialist journals and in the Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review and London Review of Books.