Shakespeare Our Contemporary? Review Article

Blom, Frans

English Studies 2000 81 (6)600-602
(ReLIS:jul:juljig:y:2000:v:81:i:6:p:600-602)

Abstract:

In Lucky Jim the main character quotes with loathing the first sentence of the one article that he ever produced: ‘In considering this strangely neglected topic’. Obviously there is no way in which this traditional opening phrase of hundreds of scholarly articles could be applied to a review of a collection of essays aiming at giving the state of the art in Shakespeare studies. Nevertheless David Scott Kastan’s A Companion to Shakespeare takes up a special position among the inexhaustible flood of books and articles on the subject. The choice of articles is determined by the general approach of the editor who states in his introduction that the old phrase ‘Shakespeare our contemporary’ contains quite a lot of truth, but that ‘we have to take into account our distance from his ever living because he is so intensely of his own time and place. It is our distance from Shakespeare that this book attempts to survey and bridge’.

Keywords: literatura inglesa
Pages: 600-602
Volume: 81
Year: 2000
Issue: 6

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