Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Critical Approaches to Shakespeare
- Unit 1. From Ben Jonson (1572-1637) to Cleanth Brooks
- 17th Century Neoclassical criticism
- Ben Jonson
Anmerkungen:
- Defines Shakespeare as a poet not of an age, but for all ages
His virtues surpassed his vices
Uses terms such as Nature and fancy
- John Dryden
Anmerkungen:
- Of Dramatick Poesie 1668
Set the basis for the main critical positions during 18th century
Considers language used inferior to the one of his time
- Thomas Rymer
Anmerkungen:
- Short VIew of Tragedy 1693:
Attack on Shakespeare's writings
- The Early 19th c.: The Romantics
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1771-1834)
- Lectures and Notes about Shakespeare. 1818
Anmerkungen:
- Reverence to Shakespeare's works
Unity of feeling
- Late 19th c.: The Victorians
- Edward Dowden (1843-1913)
- Shakespeare: A Critical Study of his Mind and Art (1875)
Anmerkungen:
- First study of Shakespeare artistic evolution as a writer. Biographical touch
- A. C. Bradley (1851-1935)
- Shakespearean Tragedy. 1904
Anmerkungen:
- Scientific interest in psychology.
Applies psychological realism.
- First Half of the 20th c.
- Emphasis on poetry and language
- George Wilson Knight (1897- 1985)
- Caroline Spurgeon (1886-1942)
- Wolfgang Clemen (1909-1990)
- The play as a theatrical Artifice
- Harley Granville - Barker
- Muriel C. Bradbrook
- The Historical Approach
- Hardin Craig
- Spencer
- Tillyard
- New Criticism
- Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994)