Shakespeare's Reading Audiences
Early Modern Books and Audience Interpretation
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- Author: Cyndia Susan Clegg, Pepperdine University, Malibu
- Date Published: June 2017
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107190641
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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 public knowledge about English history both affected Richard II's reception and how such knowledge was appropriated by the State. She also considers The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V, and Othello from the point of view of audience members conversant in popular English legal writing and Macbeth from the perspective of popular English Calvinism.
Read more- Expands our understanding of reading cultures to include not just elites but a variety of reading audiences and experiences
- Combines recent scholarship on reading, literacy, print culture and the public sphere
- Considers Shakespeare's work from the perspective of his own contemporary audiences
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- Date Published: June 2017
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107190641
- length: 226 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Audiences and reading
2. Reading Italian humanism: elite literary coteries and Shakespeare's sonnets
3. Reading Italian humanism: elite political coteries and Henry V
4. Reading law: popular legal treatises and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V and Othello
5. Reading religion: Macbeth and the calvinist drama of discernment
6. Reading politics: history, Richard II, and the public sphere.
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