Shakespeare and Quotation

Description

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.

Julie Maxwell is an independent scholar and was formerly a Fellow and Lecturer in English at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge and Exeter College, University of Oxford. She is the author of two novels which quote Shakespeare: You Can Live Forever (2007; winner of a Betty Trask Award; TLS Books of the Year), and These Are our Children (2013; Observer Books of the Year). Kate Rumbold is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Cultures of Quotation from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen (Cambridge, 2016), and the co-author, with Kate McLuskie, of Cultural Value in the Twenty-First Century: the Case of Shakespeare (2014).