Shakespeare''s First Reader - The Paper Trails of Richard Stonley

Jason Scott-Warren is Reader in Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College.

List of contents

Preface

A Note on Conventions

Introduction. Material Readers

Chapter 1. Shopping for Shakespeare

Chapter 2. Accounting for the Self

Chapter 3. On Aldersgate Street

Chapter 4. People of the Book

Chapter 5. Paper Travels

Chapter 6. A Booke in Commendacion of the Ladye Branche

Chapter 7. Meet the Chillesters

Chapter 8. Reading in the Fleet

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Jason Scott-Warren

Summary

Richard Stonley, the earliest known purchaser of Shakespeare's first publication, Venus and Adonis, has hitherto been the merest of footnotes in literary history. Through a combination of book history and biography, Shakespeare's First Reader tells a compelling story of how one early modern gentleman lived in and through his library.

Product details

• Authors: Jason Scott-Warren
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780812251456
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5145-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Material Texts; Material Texts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies