Voltaire, Goethe, Schlegel, Coleridge: Great Shakespeareans: Volume III

by Roger Paulin (Editor)

Overview

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.  In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Voltaire, Goethe, Schlegel and Coleridge to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays.  Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472539120
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/27/2014
Series:	Great Shakespeareans
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Roger Paulin is Schröder Professor Emeritus at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK.  His books include monographs on Ludwig Tieck (1985), on the German Novelle (1985), and on the reception of Shakespeare in Germany (2003).  In 2002 he was awarded a Humboldt Prize.

Table of Contents

Series Preface - Peter Holland and Adrian Poole
Notes on Contributors
Note on References to Shakespeare
Introduction, Roger Paulin (Cambridge, UK)
Voltaire, Michèle Willems (Rouen, France)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stephen Fennell (Cambridge, UK)
Friedrich von Schlegel, Christine Roger (Picardie, France)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Reginald Foakes (UCLA, USA)
Notes
Bibliography
Index