Early Modern Literature in History

Roberts, S.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2002-11-19

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333740149

DOI: 10.1057/9780230286849

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 254