Shakespeare's early readers : a cultural history from 1590 to 1800

Summary: "Shakespeare's Early Readers covers the period from the publication of the first Shakespearean playbooks to the gradual disappearance of the monopoly on the publication of Shakespeare's works, held by a handful of publishers, and the opening of the market to a wider readership in the course of the eighteenth century. In sum, the monograph addresses that crucial formative early modern 'moment' when Shakespeare's works began to permeate the public sphere both in London and elsewhere. His plays and poems were handed down, transformed, disseminated and appraised by his readers"--

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ISBN: 9781316502990
ISBN: 1107138337
ISBN: 9781107138339
ISBN: 1316481344
ISBN: 9781316481349
ISBN: 1108671616
ISBN: 9781108671613
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Literacy and the circulation of plays -- Life in the archives : shaping early modern selfhood -- Readers and editors : a concordia discors -- Early modern theatrical annotators and transcribers -- Commonplacing : the myth and the empirical impulse -- Passing judgement : parts 1 and 2.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.