This is the first comprehensive study of early modern texts, readings, and readers of Shakespeare's poems in print and manuscript, Reading Shakespeare's Poems in Early Modern England makes a compelling contribution both to Shakespeare studies and the history of the book. Examining gendered readerships and the use of erotic works, reading practises and manuscript culture, textual forms and transmission, literary taste and the canonisation of Shakespeare, this book argues that historicist criticism can no longer ignore histories of reading.
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Reading Shakespeare's Poems in Early Modern England
This is the first comprehensive study of early modern texts, readings, and readers of Shakespeare's poems in print and manuscript, Reading Shakespeare's Poems in Early Modern England makes a compelling contribution both to Shakespeare studies and the history of the book. Examining gendered readerships and the use of erotic works, reading practises and manuscript culture, textual forms and transmission, literary taste and the canonisation of Shakespeare, this book argues that historicist criticism can no longer ignore histories of reading.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781349409600 |
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Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Publication date: | 11/19/2002 |
Series: | Early Modern Literature in History |
Edition description: | 1st ed. 2003 |
Pages: | 254 |
Product dimensions: | 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d) |
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