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Friedrich Theodor Vischer’s Shakespeare Criticism
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Hahn, Hans-Joachim |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | Vischer’s Shakespeare studies not only provide valuable insights into the bard’s plays, they also advance the type of positivist approach later practised by Bradley and others. This study focuses on Hamlet, the play most prominent in nineteenth-century German Shakespeare criticism. Two aspects are of particular interest: (1) Vischer’s nationalist approach, placing Shakespeare solely into a Northern European, Germanic environment. (2) Vischer’s primary concern with character studies. By removing Hamlet from the idealised pedestal on which the Romantics had placed him, Hamlet is no longer seen as the philosopher prince, tormented by moral scruples, but as caught in a net of adverse circumstances which he has to overcome in order to fulfil his father’s command. Vischer thereby liberates Shakespeare criticism from the constraints of domestic tragedy and its bourgeois morality. |
| Related Links | http://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/zaa.2017.65.issue-1/zaa-2017-0002/zaa-2017-0002.xml |
| ISSN | 00442305 |
| e-ISSN | 21964726 |
| DOI | 10.1515/zaa-2017-0002 |
| Journal | Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 65 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
| Publisher Date | 2017-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Zeitschrift Für Anglistik Und Amerikanistik Literary Theory and Criticism Vischer Shakespeare Criticism Hamlet Morality Positivist Approach Shakespeare Solely Approach Later Journal: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Issue- 3 |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory |
