Shakespeare
Contributors: Gregory Moore (Translator)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 20, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780691135359
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Literary Criticism; Plays / Drama; English; Shakespeare; British Literature; Comparative Literature
Description: A key document in the German reception of Shakespeare, Herder's essay is a repudiation of the normative poetics of the Enlightenment and the hegemony of French neoclassicism, as well as a passionate defence of European diversity in an age of increasing homogeneity.