Casual Shakespeare is the first full-length study of the thousands of quotations both in and of Shakespeare's works which represent intertextuality outside of what is conventionally appreciated as literary value. Drawing on the insights gained as a result of a major, ongoing Digital Humanities project, this study posits a historical continuum of casual quotation which informs Shakespeare's own works as well as their afterlives. In this groudbreaking, rigorous analysis, Dr. Regula Trillini offers readers a new approach and understanding of the use and impact quotes like the infamous, 'To be or not to be,' have had througout literary history.
Dr. Regula Hohl Trillini is a Lecturer of English Literature at the Univeristy of Basel
Chapter 1 To Quote or Not to QuoteChapter 2 'Pure his own': Puns, Proverbs and 'Pieces of Scripture'Chapter 3 'Honey-Tongued Shakespeare: Absorbing the Classics'Chapter 4 'Shakespeare's Fine Filed Phrase'Chapter 5 Eighteenth-Century Casual: Generic ShakespeareChapter 6 Peak Casual: Romantic RoutineChapter 7 Jane Austen
A superb example of today's digitally-based literary scholarship: combining systematic digital collection of unknown material with imaginative analytical thinking, to trace the rise and fall of Shakespeare quotation and uncover another way that Jane Austen is unique. John Lavagnino, King's College London
