Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Works of Mr. William Shakespear;
Author: William ShakespeareThe Works of Mr. William Shakespear; in Eight Volumes
Author: William ShakespeareThe Works of Shakespeare
Author: William ShakespeareThe Works of Mr. William Shakespear;
Author: William ShakespeareBritish Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The Works of Mr. William Shakespear; in Eight Volumes. Adorn'd with Cutts. Revis'd and Corrected, with an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by N. Rowe, Esq; to this Edition is Added, a Table of the Most Sublime Passages in this Author..
Author: William ShakespeareBritish Museum
Author: British Museum (Londen)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Works of Shakespeare, Etc
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Reading It Wrong
Author: Abigail WilliamsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691170681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation—and how this still shapes the way we read Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about: the misunderstanding, muddle and confusion of readers of the past when they first met the uniquely elusive writings of the period. Abigail Williams uses the marginal marks and jottings of these readers to show that flawed interpretation has its own history—and its own important role to play—in understanding how, why and what we read. Focussing on the first half of the eighteenth century, the golden age of satire, Reading It Wrong tells how a combination of changing readerships and fantastically tricky literature created the perfect grounds for puzzlement and partial comprehension. Through the lens of a history of imperfect reading, we see that many of the period’s major works—by writers including Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Mary Wortley Montagu, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift—both generated and depended upon widespread misreading. Being foxed by a satire, coded fiction or allegory was, like Wordle or the cryptic crossword, a form of entertainment, and perhaps a group sport. Rather than worrying that we don’t have all the answers, we should instead recognize the cultural importance of not knowing.
Shakespeare in Print
Author: Andrew MurphyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139439464
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
Shakespeare in Print is a comprehensive 2003 account of Shakespeare publishing and an indispensable research resource. Andrew Murphy sets out the history of the Shakespeare text from the Renaissance through to the twenty-first century, from the twin perspectives of editing and publishing history. Murphy tackles issues of editorial and textual theory in an accessible and engaging manner. He draws on a wide range of archival materials and attends to topics little explored by previous scholars, such as the importance of Scottish and Irish editions in the eighteenth century, the rise of the educational edition and the history and significance of mass-market editions. The extensive appendix is an invaluable reference tool which provides full publishing details of all single-text Shakespeare editions up to 1709 and all collected editions up to 1821. The listing also provides details of a selected range of major editions beyond these dates to the present day.