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Shakespeare´s Reading Audiences: Early Modern Books and Audience Interpretation
Cyndia Susan Clegg
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Description for Shakespeare´s Reading Audiences: Early Modern Books and Audience Interpretation
hardcover. This book asks what Shakespeare's contemporary audiences read and how their reading shaped their reception of his work. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
This study grows out of the intersection of two realms of scholarly investigation - the emerging public sphere in early modern England and the history of the book. Shakespeare's Reading Audiences examines the ways in which different communities - humanist, legal, religious and political - would have interpreted Shakespeare's plays and poems, whether printed or performed. Cyndia Susan Clegg begins by analysing elite reading clusters associated with the Court, the universities, and the Inns of Court and how their interpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnets and Henry V arose from their reading of Italian humanists. She concludes by examining how widely held ... Read more
This study grows out of the intersection of two realms of scholarly investigation - the emerging public sphere in early modern England and the history of the book. Shakespeare's Reading Audiences examines the ways in which different communities - humanist, legal, religious and political - would have interpreted Shakespeare's plays and poems, whether printed or performed. Cyndia Susan Clegg begins by analysing elite reading clusters associated with the Court, the universities, and the Inns of Court and how their interpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnets and Henry V arose from their reading of Italian humanists. She concludes by examining how widely held ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107190641
SKU
V9781107190641
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99-20
About Cyndia Susan Clegg
Cyndia Susan Clegg, Distinguished Professor of English at Pepperdine University, Malibu, has published articles on early modern print culture and on Shakespeare in Shakespeare Quarterly, the Ben Jonson Journal, Huntington Library Quarterly and several essay collections. Her books include The Peaceable and Prosperous Regiment of Blessed Queene Elisabeth (2005), Press Censorship in Caroline England (Cambridge, 2008), Press Censorship in Jacobean ... Read more
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