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报告人：国际著名莎学家、耶鲁大学讲座教授

       戴维•斯科特•卡斯顿教授 （David Scott Kastan）

        
题目：What Does “Based On” Mean: Shakespeare, Source-study, and Originality

主持人：南京大学高研院副院长  从 丛 教授

时间：2018年10月18日（周四）下午16:10-17:40
地点：仙林校区逸夫楼C308高研院报告厅
备注：英语演讲

提要：Shakespeare is both the writer who has come to represent the highest
form of literary originality in English, and also the writer whose very
greatness has provoked the most determined search for his sources, that is,
for the evidence, one might say, of his unoriginality. This lecture will
explore this paradox: how it is that of Shakespeare, who conspicuously borrows
plots, characters, even whole speeches, one of his contemporaries could say
that “All that he doth write is pure his owne.”

卡斯顿教授简介：
David Scott Kastan is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale
University, having previously taught at Columbia University and at Dartmouth
College. He is among the most widely read of contemporary literary scholars,
with his work translated into many languages. As one of the general editors of
the Arden Shakespeare, the co-editor of the Bantam Shakespeare, and the
series editor of the Barnes and Noble Shakespeare, he has authored or edited
numerous books, including Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time, Shakespeare
after Theory, Shakespeare and the Book, A Will to Believe: Shakespeare and
Religion, and the five-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. His
most recent book, On Color, was published in May 2018. Currently he is working
on a history of the book for Princeton University Press, tentatively entitled
Book Cases.

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