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  1. Herder on Shakespeare, Nominalism, and Obsolescence Nir Evron Tel Aviv University abstract: This article revisits Johann Gottfried Herders 1773 essay on Shakespeare. What makes Herders critical essay remarkable, it argues, is not just that it models the nominalist and culturalist outlook that would go on to have far-reaching impli-

  2. JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER drama and Shakespeare’s drama are two things that in a certain respect have scarcely their name in common. I believe I can demonstrate these propositions from Greece itself and in doing so deci­ pher a great deal of the nature of the northern drama and of the greatest north­ ern dramatist, Shakespeare.

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  4. Shakespeare's drama. I support this argument by reference to Johann Gottfried Herders 1773 essay "Shakespeare." Throughout the 1760s, Shakespeare's theater was a topic of much discussion in Germany. While some were fascinated by Shakespeare's recently translated work, critical audiences asked if these plays, so clearly violating the dominant

  5. The affinities between Herder and Shakespeare are to be understood against the common background of an esoteric hermetic tradition which after its flowering in the Renaissance reappeared in the second half of the eighteenth century and made its imprint on the European mind.

    • Barbara Belhalfaoui
    • 1987
  6. Mar 10, 2008 · Overview. Author (s) Praise. Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature and art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the same without the influence of HerdersShakespeare” (1773).

  7. Jul 17, 2011 · Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature and art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the same without the influence of Herder's "Shakespeare" (1773).

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