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Page i ACCENTS ON SHAKESPEARE General editor: TERENCE HAWKES Shakespeare and Appropriation The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare’s cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers’ efforts to imitate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation. The essays:
Christy Desmet is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia, and author of Reading Shakespeare’s Characters: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Identity (University of Massachusetts Press, 1992) Robert Sawyer is a Robert E.Park Fellow in English at the University of Georgia. |
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