Eighteenth-Century Swiss Peasant Meets Bard: Ulrich Bräker's A Few Words about William Shakespeare's Plays (1780)

Erne, Lukas Christian

doi:10.1017/s0307883300019714

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Eighteenth-Century Swiss Peasant Meets Bard: Ulrich Bräker's A Few Words about William Shakespeare's Plays (1780)

ContributorsErne, Lukas Christian

Published inTheatre research international, vol. 25, no. 3, p. 255-265

Publication date2000

Abstract

Assesses Ulrich Bräker's Etwas über William Shakespeare Schauspiele, with attention to how his commentary combines "idolatrous adoration and unashamed irreverence for Shakespeare and his plays" and to its place in the eighteenth-century German reception of Shakespeare.

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William Shakespeare
Ulrich Bräker
Reception study

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Faculté des lettres / Département de langue et de littérature anglaises

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ERNE, Lukas Christian. Eighteenth-Century Swiss Peasant Meets Bard: Ulrich Bräker’s A Few Words about William Shakespeare’s Plays (1780). In: Theatre research international, 2000, vol. 25, n° 3, p. 255–265. doi: 10.1017/s0307883300019714

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PID : unige:14486
DOI : 10.1017/s0307883300019714

Journal ISSN0307-8833

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Eighteenth-Century Swiss Peasant Meets Bard: Ulrich Bräker's A Few Words about William Shakespeare's Plays (1780)

Assesses Ulrich Bräker's Etwas über William Shakespeare Schauspiele, with attention to how his commentary combines "idolatrous adoration and unashamed irreverence for Shakespeare and his plays" and to its place in the eighteenth-century German reception of Shakespeare.

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