National Poets, the Status of the Epic and the Strange Case of Master William Shakespeare

This essay contextualises Shakespeare as product of a field of forces encapsulating national identity and relative cultural status. It begins by historicising the production of national poets in Romantic and Nationalist terms. Lefevere’s conceptual grid is then used to characterise the system that u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paul Innes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2016-04-01
Series:Multicultural Shakespeare
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/article/view/7685