Impressive Shakespeare: Identity, Authority and the Imprint in Shakespearean Drama

ISBN-13: 9780367731854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 200 str.

Harry Newman

Opis

Impressive Shakespeare reassesses Shakespeare’s relationship with "print culture" in light of his plays’ engagement with the language and material culture of three interrelated "impressing technologies": wax sealing, coining, and typographic printing.

Spis treści

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

A Note on the Text

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Stamp of the Bard

‘My dear Keats’: Impressions of ‘WS’

Metaphors and Material Readings

The Structure of this Book

1. Technology, Language, Physiology

Sealing, Coining, Printing: Interrelated Technologies

The Language of Impression and Early Modern Metaphor Theory

Early Modern Physiology: Imprinting and Imprinted Subjects

2. ‘[T]he stamp of Martius’: Commoditised Character and the Technology of Theatrical Impression in Coriolanus

Valuing the Imprint of ‘Character’: Theatre, Charactery, Criticism

Translating Plutarch, Coining Coriolanus

Metatheatrical Impressions: Burbage’s ‘Painting’ and the Technology of Wounds

Sealing Knowledge: The Theatrical Contract and the Imprint of Silence

3. ‘[A] form in wax, / By him imprinted’: Sealing and Poetics in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare’s ‘special impress’: Materialising and Gendering Dream’s Poetry

Seals in Early Modern Material Culture, Rhetoric and Drama

The ‘transfigured’ Audience: Signs and Seals of Poetic Transformation in Dream

4. ‘[S]tamps that are forbid’: Measure for Measure, Counterfeit Coinage, and the Politics of Value

Counterfeiting in the Name of the King: Jacobean Coinage and the King’s Men

Metatheatrical Counterfeiting: The Duke’s Economy of Value

Adapting ‘old-coined gold’: Canonical Value and the Stamp of Thomas Middleton

5. The Printer’s Tale: Books, Children, and the Prefatory Construction of Shakespearean Authorship

The Infant-Text and the Prefatory ‘Shake-scene’

Dramatic Paratexts, Theatricality and the ‘paper stage’

‘[T]he fathers face’: Prefacing Shakespeare’s Book, 1623

The Printer’s Tale Retold: Paternal Likeness in The Winter’s Tale and the Preliminaries of the First Folio

Conclusion

Impressions Past, Present and Future: Shakespearean Drama in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Shakespeare and the ‘print of goodness’: The Ethics of the Imprint

Works Cited

Index

O autorze

Harry Newman is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.