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Informationen zum Autor Cyndia Susan Clegg, Distinguished Professor of English at Pepperdine University, Malibu, has published articles on early modern print culture and on Shakespeare in Shakespeare Quarterly, the Ben Jonson Journal, Huntington Library Quarterly and several essay collections. Her books include The Peaceable and Prosperous Regiment of Blessed Queene Elisabeth (2005), Press Censorship in Caroline England (Cambridge, 2008), Press Censorship in Jacobean England (Cambridge, 2001) and Press Censorship in Elizabeth England (Cambridge, 1997). Klappentext This book asks what Shakespeare's contemporary audiences read and how their reading shaped their reception of his work. Zusammenfassung Shakespeare's Reading Audiences teaches us about reading practices and reading communities within Shakespeare's audiences. It examines how interpretative communities! shaped by their reading of widely circulated texts! would have 'read' Shakespeare's poems and plays! circulated! printed or performed. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Audiences and reading; 2. Reading Italian humanism: elite literary coteries and Shakespeare's sonnets; 3. Reading Italian humanism: elite political coteries and Henry V; 4. Reading law: popular legal treatises and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V and Othello; 5. Reading religion: Macbeth and the calvinist drama of discernment; 6. Reading politics: history, Richard II, and the public sphere.
