Reading and writing in Shakespeare
By: edited by David M. Bergeron.
Contributors: Bergeron, David Moore.; Shakespeare Association of America.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Literature -- Congresses.; Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses.; Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.; Books and reading in literature -- Congresses.; Authorship in literature -- Congresses.; Writing in literature -- Congresses.; Authorship -- History -- Congresses.; England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century -- Congresses.; England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century -- Congresses.
Description: This volume of essays explores reading and writing in Shakespeare and his culture. Shakespeare as a worker and writer straddled a margin between an oral, customary world and a literate world of specializing professionals in a way that no subsequent writer ever could. With the 1623 Folio edition, Shakespeare completed the transformation from an active dramatist to an author of a book, collected by his friends and now available to readers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Essays based on the Apr. 1992 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, in Kansas City, Mo.