Shakespeare's book : essays in reading, writing and reception /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2008.
Description:	vi, 273 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. Authors and patrons. Authors and publishers. Authors and patrons. Authors and publishers. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7714236

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Other authors / contributors:	Meek, Richard, 1975- Rickard, Jane. Wilson, Richard, 1950-
ISBN:	9780719079054 (cased) 0719079055 (cased)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The volume explores both Shakespeare's relationship with actual printers, patrons, and readers, and the representation of writing, reading, and print within his works themselves. The essays are theoretically, critically, and methodologically wide-ranging. What all of the contributors share, however, is a sense of the importance of books - the books Shakespeare read, the books he represented within his works, and the books within which his works were first read - to our understanding of Shakespeare's cultural significance, both for his contemporaries and for us. Shakespeare's Book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Renaissance literature, theatre and cultural history, textual bibliography, and the history of the book."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I. Books
âÇ An index and obscure prologueâÇÖ: Books and theatre in ShakespeareâÇÖs literary authorship
âÇ A Man in PrintâÇÖ?: Shakespeare and the Representation of the Press
âÇ Penned SpeechâÇÖ: Seeing and Not Seeing in King Lear
âÇ A Stringless InstrumentâÇÖ: Richard II and the Defeat of Poetry
Part II. Texts
FoucaultâÇÖs Epistemic Shift and Verbatim Repetition in Shakespeare
âÇ As sharp as a PenâÇÖ: Henry V and its texts
ShakespeareâÇÖs Deletions and False Starts, Mark 2
Part III. Readers
The First Folio: âÇ My ShakespeareâÇÖ/âÇ Our ShakespeareâÇÖ: Whose Shakespeare?
The âÇ FirstâÇÖ Folio in Context: The Folio Collections of Shakespeare, Jonson and King James
A New Early Reader of Shakespeare
âÇ Too long for a playâÇÖ: Shakespeare Beyond Page and Stage
Afterword
Index

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