Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Padua Measure for Measure
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio
Author: Emma Josephine SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107098785
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
An international team of scholars covers every aspect of one of the most famous books in the English language.
Text of the Padua Mesure for Measure, The Winters Tale
Author: The Authentic Shakespeare
Author: Stephen OrgelPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317796217
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In this lavishly illustrated book, one of the most important and influential scholars of the Renaissance stage brings together essays that have changed the way we think about the age of Shakespeare. His subjects are varied and interconnected: the theater as social phenomenon, the development of the stage as an architectural presence and a cultural institution, the changing use of setting and costume, the changing status of the acting profession, the complex relation of theater to the political life of the age. Most of all, The Authentic Shakespeare is about how the modern constructs the past, how the texts that were performed on the Elizabethan stage became the books and editions that are, for our time, Renaissance drama. Many essays in The Authentic Shakespeare have become classics. Collected here for the first time, they essential reading for students of the Renaissance stage and the history of the book.
Introductions to the Padua Mesure for Measure, The Winters Tale
Author: Shakespeare's Early Readers
Author: Jean-Christophe MayerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110865116X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Who were Shakespeare's first readers and what did they think of his works? Offering the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the centuries during which they were originally produced, Jean-Christophe Mayer reconsiders the role of readers in the history of Shakespeare's rise to fame and in the history of canon formation. Addressing an essential formative 'moment' when Shakespeare became a literary dramatist, this book explores six crucial fields: literacy; reading and life-writing; editing Shakespeare's text; marking Shakespeare for the theatre; commonplacing; and passing judgement. Through close examination of rare material, some of which has never been published before, and covering both the marks left by readers in their books and early manuscript extracts of Shakespeare, Mayer demonstrates how the worlds of print and performance overlapped at a time when Shakespeare offered a communal text, the ownership of which was essentially undecided.
Shakespearean Prompt-books of the Seventeenth Century
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Promptbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
English editions. English Shakespeariana, A. - Finzi
Author: Birmingham Shakespeare LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The Reader in the Book
Author: Stephen OrgelPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191057533
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Reader in the Book is concerned with a particular aspect of the history of the book, an archeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. One of the most commonplace aspects of old books is the fact that people wrote in them, something that, until very recently, has infuriated modern collectors and librarians. But these inscriptions constitute a significant dimension of the book's history, and what readers did to books often added to their value. Sometimes marks in books have no relation to the subject of the book, merely names, dates, prices paid; blank spaces were used for pen trials and doing sums, and flyleaves are occasionally the repository of records of various kinds. The Reader in the Book deals with that special class of books in which the text and marginalia are in intense communication with each other, in which reading constitutes an active and sometimes adversarial engagement with the book. The major examples are works that are either classics or were classics in their own time; but they are seen here as contemporaries read them, without the benefit of centuries of commentary and critical guidance. The underlying question is at what point marginalia, the legible incorporation of the work of reading into the text of the book, became a way of defacing it rather than of increasing its value-why did we want books to lose their history?
Shakespeare's First Folio
Author: Emma SmithPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191069280
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now spread around the world about their eventful lives. From ink blots to pet paws, from annotations to wineglass rings, First Folios teem with evidence of its place in different contexts with different priorities. This study offers new ways to understand Shakespeare's reception and the history of the book. Unlike previous scholarly investigations of the First Folio, it is not concerned with the discussions of how the book came into being, the provenance of its texts, or the technicalities of its production. Instead, it reanimates, in narrative style, the histories of this book, paying close attention to the details of individual copies now located around the world - their bindings, marginalia, general condition, sales history, and location - to discuss five major themes: owning, reading, decoding, performing, and perfecting. This is a history of the book that consolidated Shakespeare's posthumous reputation: a reception history and a study of interactions between owners, readers, forgers, collectors, actors, scholars, booksellers, and the book through which we understand and recognise Shakespeare.