Romantic Shakespeare
Subtitle: from stage to page
By: Younglim Han.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Madison, NJ; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 19th century; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence; Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 -- Knowledge -- Literature; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Knowledge -- Literature; Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830 -- Knowledge -- Literature; Romanticism -- Great Britain; Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Authors and readers -- England -- History -- 19th century; Reader-response criticism
Description: "This book attempts to link three British Romantics to three reader-response theorists of the twentieth century in accordance with the theoretical assumptions shared between their notions of interpretation: Charles Lamb to Wolfgang Iser, Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Stanley Fish, and William Hazlitt to Robert Jauss. It examines what Romanticism and reader-oriented criticism share in common: elitism and holism.

These 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-245) and index.