William Shakespeare is perhaps the most frequently quoted author of
the English-speaking world. His plays, in turn, "quote" a wide
variety of sources, from books and ballads to persons and events.
In this dynamic study of Shakespeare's plays, Douglas Bruster
demonstrates that such borrowing can illuminate the world in which
Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights lived and worked,
while also shedding light on later cultures that quote his plays.
In contrast to the New Historicism's sometimes arbitrary linkage
of literary works with elements drawn from the surrounding culture,
"Quoting Shakespeare" focuses on the resources that writers used in
making their works. Bruster shows how this borrowing can give us
valuable insight into the cultural, historical, and political
positions of writers and their works. Because Shakespeare's plays
have often been quoted by other writers, this study also examines
what subsequent uses of Shakespeare's plays reveal about the
writers and cultures that use them. In this way, "Quoting
Shakespeare" insists that literary production and reception are
both integral to a historical approach to literature.
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