Description
| Product ID: | 9781349409600 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Early Modern Literature in History |
| Title: | Reading Shakespeare’s Poems in Early Modern England |
| Authors: | Author: S. Roberts |
| Page Count: | 254 |
| Subjects: | Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry & poets |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2002-11-19 |
