Shakespeare's Early Readers: A Cultural History from 1590 to 1800

Author:   Jean-Christophe Mayer
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107138339


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   06 September 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Shakespeare's Early Readers: A Cultural History from 1590 to 1800


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Author:   Jean-Christophe Mayer
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9781107138339


ISBN 10:   1107138337
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   06 September 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Literacy and the circulation of plays; 2. Life in the archives: shaping early modern selfhood; 3. Readers and editors – a concordia discors; 4. Early modern theatrical annotators and transcribers; 5. Commonplacing: the myth and the empirical impulse; 6. Passing judgement – parts 1 and 2; Conclusion.

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'This is a rich, considered, intelligent and engaging study, supported by meticulous and wide-ranging research ... I commend Professor Mayer on what he has achieved here. His own readers will thank him for the work he has done and I wish his book a long shelf life (with many readers scribbling merrily in its margins).' Andrew Murphy, University of St Andrews, Scotland '... immensely scholarly and wide ranging ... As well as drawing on the work of pervious scholars, he [Mayer] has personally examined or reports of 'several hundred books' and numerous documents in libraries and other collections worldwide ...' Stanley Wells, The Times Literary Supplement 'This is a rich, considered, intelligent and engaging study, supported by meticulous and wide-ranging research ... I commend Professor Mayer on what he has achieved here. His own readers will thank him for the work he has done and I wish his book a long shelf life (with many readers scribbling merrily in its margins).' Andrew Murphy, University of St Andrews, Scotland '... immensely scholarly and wide ranging ... As well as drawing on the work of pervious scholars, he [Mayer] has personally examined or reports of 'several hundred books' and numerous documents in libraries and other collections worldwide ...' Stanley Wells, The Times Literary Supplement


'This is a rich, considered, intelligent and engaging study, supported by meticulous and wide-ranging research ... I commend Professor Mayer on what he has achieved here. His own readers will thank him for the work he has done and I wish his book a long shelf life (with many readers scribbling merrily in its margins).' Andrew Murphy, University of St Andrews, Scotland `This is a rich, considered, intelligent and engaging study, supported by meticulous and wide-ranging research ... I commend Professor Mayer on what he has achieved here. His own readers will thank him for the work he has done and I wish his book a long shelf life (with many readers scribbling merrily in its margins).' Andrew Murphy, University of St Andrews, Scotland


Advance praise: 'This is a rich, considered, intelligent and engaging study, supported by meticulous and wide-ranging research ... I commend Professor Mayer on what he has achieved here. His own readers will thank him for the work he has done and I wish his book a long shelf life (with many readers scribbling merrily in its margins).' Andrew Murphy, University of St Andrews, Scotland


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Jean-Christophe Mayer is a Research Professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a member of the Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-classical Age and the Enlightenment (IRCL) at Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier. He is the author of Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith (2006) and of Shakespeare et la postmodernité (2012).

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