Appropriating Shakespeare (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian Vickers
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Literary criticism and theory
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Literature, Criticism, Drama or dramatists, Theater, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays
As editor of a six-volume work entitled Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage (1974-1981), surveying all Shakespearean criticism from 1623 through 1801, Brian Vickers is in an excellent position to assess the state of Shakespearean criticism. Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels, however, is not a considered work of literary history; Vickers intended this highly polemical work to provoke controversy in academic circles. He sets out to demonstrate the fallacies of recent schools of literary theory and criticism, which he charges have willfully appropriated...
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