Episode 65 - Shakespeare Scholarship

We are not Shakespeare scholars. We have neither the education, resources, or frankly the intelligence to engage with Shakespeare’s work the way anyone who’s actually published a paper about Shakespeare does.

We are amateurs.

But none of the names we’re talking about today are amateurs. All of them have left some sort of important imprint on the study of Shakespeare. And we've rounded up the highlights and put our own Bicks-ified spin on it for your listening pleasure. We hope you'll enjoy!

Links:

A decent history summary (via Encyclopedia Britannica)
Another quick summary of big names
Francis Meres:
- https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/resource/document/palladis-tamia-one-earliest-printed-assessments-shakespeares-works-and-first
John Weever:
- https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/resource/document/epigrams-oldest-cut-critical-responses-and-allusions-shakespeare-and-three-his
Ben Jonson:
- https://literatureessaysamples.com/a-biting-elegy-ben-jonson-on-shakespeare/
John Dryden:
- https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fid_97-01/973_dryden.html
Alexander Pope:
- http://jacklynch.net/Texts/pope-shakespeare.html
Samuel Johnson:
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/24776308
Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
- http://theshakespeareblog.com/2015/10/samuel-taylor-coleridge-and-shakespeare/
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
- https://frenchquest.com/2020/12/01/goethe-on-shakespeare-a-tribute-1771/
New Criticism:
- https://whatapieceofwork.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/the-new-criticism/
Northrop Frye:
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442689886
Stephen Greenblat:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/books/review/will-in-the-world-reinventing-shakespeare.html
Feminist Criticism:
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Shakespeare/Feminist-criticism-and-gender-studies
Deconstructionist:
- http://ejournals.org.uk/bjll/%5Bpp3-pp12%5D_ARTICLE_1.pdf
Shakespeare in Africa:
- https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Shakespeare_in_Africa
Shakespeare in Asia:
- https://asiatimes.com/2016/12/asian-scholarship-william-shakespeare-second-none/
Shakespeare in Central/South America:
- https://www.wordtrade.com/literature/shakespeareR.htm
Shakespeare in Indigenous Contexts:
- https://fellowsblog.ted.com/why-shakespeare-deserves-a-native-american-perspective-fd5ab5ba556e
- https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2019-10-15/native-american/umaine-lecture-why-native-theater-is-embracing-shakespeare/a68040-1

Episode 65 - Shakespeare Scholarship

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