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Further reading

MATT KOZUSKO

I Critical works and collections

Bate, Jonathan (1989) Shakespearean Constitutions: Politics, Theatre, Criticism 1730– 1830, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Examines the reciprocal influences of Georgian England on Shakespeare and of Shakespeare on Georgian England; acknowledges that Shakespeare is easily appropriated, but insists that the plays can also exert their own influence on readers.

Bloom, Harold (1998) Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, New York: Riverhead Books. Argues that Shakespeare is responsible both for literary character as we know it and subsequently for the understanding Westerners have of themselves as dynamic individuals.

Boose, Lynda E. and Burt, Richard (1997) (eds) Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video, London and New York: Routledge. Examines a range of film and television productions of Shakespeare, addressing such issues as textual authority, “popular” versus “classical” presentations, and how different film traditions transform the Shakespearean text.

Bristol, Michael D. (1990) Shakespeare’s America, America’s Shakespeare, London: Routledge. A Marxist look at Shakespeare as an institution in American criticism and popular culture.

—— (1996) Big-Time Shakespeare, London: Routledge. Examines how Shakespeare has become a figure of literary fame, an icon of “celebrity” status with cultural currency.

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