Shakespeare's book
Subtitle: essays in reading, writing and reception
By: edited by Richard Meek, Jane Rickard and Richard Wilson
Edition: Pbk.ed.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Manchester [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780719085611
Subjects: Authors and publishers; Authors and patrons; Criticism and interpretation
Description: "The volume explores both Shakespeare's relationship with actual printers, patrons, and readers, and the representation of writing, reading, and print within his works themselves. The essays are theoretically, critically, and methodologically wide-ranging. What all of the contributors share, however, is a sense of the importance of books - the books Shakespeare read, the books he represented within his works, and the books within which his works were first read - to our understanding of Shakespeare's cultural significance, both for his contemporaries and for us. Shakespeare's Book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Renaissance literature, theatre and cultural history, textual bibliography, and the history of the book."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'An index and obscure prologue': books and theatre in Shakespeare's literary authorship / Patrick Cheney; title: 'A man in print'? Shakespeare and the representation of the press / Helen Smith; title: 'Penn'd speech': seeing and not seeing in King Lear / Richard Meek; title: 'A stringless instrument': Richard II and the defeat of poetry / Richard Wilson; title: Foucault's epistemic shift and verbatim repetition in Shakespeare/ Gabriel Egan; title: 'As sharp as a pen': Henry V and its texts / Duncan Salkeld; title: Shakespeare's deletions and false starts, mark 2 / E. A. J. Honigmann; title: The first Folio: 'my Shakespeare'/'our Shakespeare': whose Shakespeare? / George Donaldson; title: The 'first' Folio in context: the folio collections of Shakespeare, Jonson, and King James / Jane Rickard; title: A new early reader of Shakespeare / Stanley Wells; title: 'Too long for a play': Shakespeare beyond page and stage / John Lyon; title: Afterward / Lukas Erne.