Impressive Shakespeare identity, authority and the imprint in Shakespearean drama
"Impressive Shakespeare reassesses Shakespeare's relationship with 'print culture' in light of his plays' engagement with the language and material culture of three interrelated 'impressing technologies': wax sealing, coining, and typographic printing. It analyses...
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| Sprache: | English |
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New York, NY
Routledge
2019
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| Schriftenreihe: | Material readings in early modern culture
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Impressive Shakespeare reassesses Shakespeare's relationship with 'print culture' in light of his plays' engagement with the language and material culture of three interrelated 'impressing technologies': wax sealing, coining, and typographic printing. It analyses the material and rhetorical forms through which drama was thought to 'imprint' early modern audiences and readers with ideas, morals and memories, and--looking to our own cultural moment--shows how Shakespeare has been historically constructed as an 'impressive' dramatist. Through material readings of four plays--Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale--Harry Newman argues that Shakespeare deploys the imprint as a self-reflexive trope in order to advertise the value of his plays to audiences and readers, and that in turn the language of impression has shaped, and continues to shape, Shakespeare's critical afterlife. The book pushes the boundaries of what we understand by 'print culture', and challenges assumptions about the emergence of concepts now central to Shakespeare's perceived canonical value, such as penetrating characterisation, poetic transformation, and literary fatherhood"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Birmingham, 2012 Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781315588001 1315588005 9781317118329 1317118324 9781317118336 1317118332 9781317118312 1317118316 |