Shakespeare's Early Readers: A Cultural History from 1590 to 1800

ISBN-13: 9781107138339 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Jean-Christophe Mayer

Opis

First dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced.

Recenzje

'… immensely scholarly and wide ranging … As well as drawing on the work of pervious scholars, he [Mayer] has personally examined or reports of 'several hundred books' and numerous documents in libraries and other collections worldwide …' Stanley Wells, The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Literacy and the circulation of plays; 2. Life in the archives: shaping early modern selfhood; 3. Readers and editors – a concordia discors; 4. Early modern theatrical annotators and transcribers; 5. Commonplacing: the myth and the empirical impulse; 6. Passing judgement – parts 1 and 2; Conclusion.