Reading Shakespeare's Poems in Early Modern England
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Reading Shakespeare's Poems in Early Modern England

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eBook - PDF

Reading Shakespeare's Poems in Early Modern England

About this book

This is the first comprehensive study of early modern texts, readings, and readers of Shakespeare's poems in print and manuscript, Reading Shakespeare's Poems in Early Modern England makes a compelling contribution both to Shakespeare studies and the history of the book. Examining gendered readerships and the use of erotic works, reading practises and manuscript culture, textual forms and transmission, literary taste and the canonisation of Shakespeare, this book argues that historicist criticism can no longer ignore histories of reading.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Figures
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Ladies Reading ‘bawdy geare’: Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis and the Early Modern Woman Reader
  6. 2. Light Literature and Gentlemen Readers: Venus and Adonis, Textual Transmission and the Construction of Poetic Meaning
  7. 3. The Malleable Poetic Text: Narrative, Authorship and the Transmission of Lucrece
  8. 4. Textual Transmission and the Transformation of Desire: The Sonnets, A Lover's Complaint and The Passionate Pilgrim
  9. Afterword
  10. Notes
  11. Index