Title: Romantic Shakespeare
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Literature, Knowledge, History, Criticism, Authors and readers, Influence, English literature, Criticism and interpretation, Romanticism, History and criticism, Reader-response criticism, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, criticism and interpretation, history, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, influence, Lamb, charles, 1775-1834, Coleridge, samuel taylor, 1772-1834, Hazlitt, william, 1778-1830, Romanticism, great britain, Criticism, great britain, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Knowledge and learning
Places: Great Britain, England
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Charles Lamb (1775-1834), William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR2969 .H37 2001