Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 259 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781316481349
Content:
Who were Shakespeare's first readers and what did they think of his works? Offering the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the centuries during which they were originally produced, Jean-Christophe Mayer reconsiders the role of readers in the history of Shakespeare's rise to fame and in the history of canon formation. Addressing an essential formative 'moment' when Shakespeare became a literary dramatist, this book explores six crucial fields: literacy; reading and life-writing; editing Shakespeare's text; marking Shakespeare for the theatre; commonplacing; and passing judgement. Through close examination of rare material, some of which has never been published before, and covering both the marks left by readers in their books and early manuscript extracts of Shakespeare, Mayer demonstrates how the worlds of print and performance overlapped at a time when Shakespeare offered a communal text, the ownership of which was essentially undecided
Content:
Who were Shakespeare's first readers and what did they think of his works? Offering the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the centuries during which they were originally produced, Jean-Christophe Mayer reconsiders the role of readers in the history of Shakespeare's rise to fame and in the history of canon formation. Addressing an essential formative 'moment' when Shakespeare became a literary dramatist, this book explores six crucial fields: literacy; reading and life-writing; editing Shakespeare's text; marking Shakespeare for the theatre; commonplacing; and passing judgement. Through close examination of rare material, some of which has never been published before, and covering both the marks left by readers in their books and early manuscript extracts of Shakespeare, Mayer demonstrates how the worlds of print and performance overlapped at a time when Shakespeare offered a communal text, the ownership of which was essentially undecided
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Aug 2018)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316502990
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107138339
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316502990
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als DruckAusgabe Mayer, Jean-Christophe, 1968 - Shakespeare's early readers Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781107138339
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316502990
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781107138339
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mayer, Jean-Christophe, 1968 - Shakespeare's early readers Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781107138339
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316502990
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
;
Leser
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Geschichte 1590-1800
DOI:
10.1017/9781316481349
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Author information:
Mayer, Jean-Christophe 1968-
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