Reading Shakespeare¿s Poems in Early Modern England

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-349-40960-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 342 g

Reihe: Early Modern Literature in History

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Ladies Reading 'Bawdy Geare': Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, and the Early Modern Woman Reader Light Literature and Gentlemen Readers: Venus and Adonis, Textual Transmission, and the Construction of Poetic Meaning The Malleable Poetic Text: Narrative, Authorship, and the Transmission of Lucrece Textual Transmission and the Transformation of Desire: The Sonnets, A Lover's Complaint and The Passionate Pilgrim Afterword Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

SASHA ROBERTS is Lecturer in English at the University of Kent. Her previous publications include co-edited with Ann Thompson (1997), (1998), and essays on Shakespeare and the history of reading. She is currently researching the formation of literary taste in early modern manuscript culture.