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• Title: Introduction (Forum: The Return of the Author)
• Author : Shakespeare Studies
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 57 KB

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THE OCCASION FOR THIS FORUM is indeed the "return of the author" in Shakespeare studies. I'm grateful to the editors, Susan Zimmerman and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr., for the opportunity to convene ten distinguished scholars who represent a variety of viewpoints on the topic. While the return of the author is a complex and even delicate topic, we might begin rather simply, with the binary it implies: for many working in the field today, the author has either died or disappeared, but for some the author has now returned. Most of the contributors present their own version of this change, but a short version might run as follows. Through the convergence of two branches of scholarship and criticism--what we might call the bibliographical and the theatrical--the twentieth century succeeded in reclassifying Shakespeare, not as the autonomous genius of "dramatic poesy," but as the consummate "man of the theater," so engaged in the collaborative enterprise of the new commercial stage that he took no interest in the literary career of an English author (such as Spenser or Jonson), eschewing print like the plague and thus failing to concern himself with the legacy of artistic fame. During the first years of the twenty-first century, however, principally through Lukas Erne's groundbreaking 2003 monograph, Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist, scholars and critics have challenged the twentieth-century view with a new classification: Shakespeare is a literary author, both a playwright and a poet, who took an interest in the publication not just of his poems but of his plays, and thus in his own literary legacy. (1)

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