Shakespeare''s Early Readers - A Cultural History From 1590 to 1800

Informationen zum Autor Jean-Christophe Mayer is a Research Professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a member of the Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-classical Age and the Enlightenment (IRCL) at Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier. He is the author of Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith (2006) and of Shakespeare et la postmodernité (2012). Klappentext First dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced. Zusammenfassung This is the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced. A close examination of rare! often unpublished material offers a reconsideration of the role of readers in the history of Shakespeare's rise to fame. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Christophe Mayer, Mayer Jean-Christophe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781107138339
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13833-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights