Title: Reading and writing in Shakespeare
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.
Subjects: Literature, Books and reading in literature, Knowledge, Intellectual life, Writing in literature, Books and reading, Congresses, Authorship in literature, Authorship, History, Books and reading, history, Knowledge and learning
Places: England
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time periods: 17th century, 16th century