The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.1226 Thursday, 2 May 2002
From: Wolfram R. Keller <
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Date: Thursday, 02 May 2002 09:38:09 +0200
Subject: Re: Shakespearean Self-Quotation
Comment: SHK 13.1151 Re: Shakespearean Self-Quotation
John Velz wrote:
> I recall that Virgil K. Whitaker gave a very fine paper called
> "Shakespeare's Rough Drafts" at the Marlowe/Shakespeare Festival at Rice
> University in 1964, that year of Sh. festivals. The thesis of this paper
> was that we can detect in early plays "drafts" of things that appear
> later in the canon. Probably it was published in *Rice University
> Studies* eventually.
First of all, to both of you, many thanks for your kind and quick
replies. I put in an interlibrary loan for the 1964/65/66 issues of
*Rice University Studies*. It sounds as though Whitaker's essay might be
very helpful indeed.
Clifford Stetner wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by self quotation. If this example of echoes
> of sonnet verses in play dialogue qualifies, then I believe there are
> many.
>
> 1HIV 1.2
> PRINCE HENRY
>
> Yet herein will I imitate the sun, [...]
>
> 34
>
> [1] {VV}Hy did{{s}t} thou promi{s}e {s}uch a beautious day,
> [2] And make me trauaile forth without my cloake,
> [3] To let bace cloudes ore-take me in my way,
> [4] Hiding thy brau'ry in their rotten {s}moke.
> [5] Tis not enough that through the cloude thou breake,
>
> 56
>
> [13] As cal it Winter,which being ful of care,
> [14] Makes S|_o|mers welcome,thrice more wi{{s}h}'d,more rare:
>
> 52
>
> [5] Therefore are fea{{s}t}s {s}o {s}ollemne and {s}o rare,
> [6] Since {{s}i}ldom comming in the long yeare {s}et,
> [7] Like {{s}t}ones of worth they thinly placed are,
>
> Clifford
Yes! I am both interested in the intertextual oscillation between
sonnets/poems and plays or plays and plays. I was able to locate
self-quotative bits and pieces scattered in biographical works, but my
main question, I guess, is whether anyone has systematically identified
cases of self-quotation/echoes and analysed these concerning matters
beyond establishing a chronology of works. I am thinking along the lines
of career models, ideological transformations, self-subverting irony,
etc.
Yours thankfully,
Wolfram
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