This volume presents a close reading of instances of Shakespearean
quotations, allusions, imagery and rhetoric found in Karl Marx's
collected works and letters, which provides evidence that
Shakespeare's writings exerted a formative influence on Marx and
the development of his work. Through a methodology of intertextual
and interlingual close-reading, this study provides evidence of the
extent to which Shakespeare influenced Marx and to which Marxism
has Shakespearean roots. As a child, Marx was home-schooled in
Ludwig von Westphalen's little academy, as it were, which was
Shakespeare- and literary-focused. The group included von
Westphalen's daughter, who later became Marx's wife, Jenny. The
influence of Shakespeare in Marx's writings shows up as early as
his school essays and love letters. He modelled his early
journalism partly on ideas and rhetoric found in Shakespeare's
plays. Each turn in the development of Marx's thought-from Romantic
to Left Hegelian and then to Communist-is achieved in part through
his use of literature, especially Shakespeare. Marx's mature texts
on history, politics and economics-including the famous first
volume of Das Kapital-are laden with Shakespearean allusions and
quotations. Marx's engagement with Shakespeare resulted in the
development of a framework of characters and imagery he used to
stand for and anchor the different concepts in his political
critique. Marx's prose style uses a conceit in which politics are
depicted as performative. Later, the Marx family-Marx, Jenny and
their children-was central in the late-19th-century revival of
Shakespeare on the London stage, and in the growth of academic
Shakespeare scholarship. Through providing evidence for a formative
role of Shakespeare in the development of Marxism, the present
study suggests a formative role for literature in the history of
ideas.
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