Mullan, John;
(2024)
“There is a community of mind in it”: Quoting Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century.
XVII-XVIII: Revue de la Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
, 81
pp. 1-12.
10.4000/130qb.
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Abstract
This article seeks to show that quoting literary works written in English did not become common until the second half of the eighteenth century . The acceptance and celebration of a vernacular canon of English literature, at the centre of which was Shakespeare's drama, gave rise to the art and pleasure of quoting Shakespeare. Shakespeare came to live in common usage through anthologies of "Beauties" and particularly through the presence of his work in Johnson's Dictionary . Fragments of his plays became prominent in some eighteenth - century novels, notably in Sterne's Tristram Shandy which draws on its reader's knowledge of Shakespeare's text.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | “There is a community of mind in it”: Quoting Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.4000/130qb |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4000/130qb |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | The text alone is usable under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Other elements (illustrations, imported attachments) are "All rights reserved", unless otherwise stated. |
| Keywords: | Quote; Shakespeare; Johnson; Sterne; 18th century fiction |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204022 |
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