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

Ancient Bickerings

Which academic school (if any) would you describe the other one belonging to?