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It is (this) freely associative aspect of Elizabethan writing and reading that Miola wishes to emphasize, a subtle but significant insight into authorship for teachers and students alike. Years Work in English Studies Begins with a clear and persuasive introductory chapter on the nature and status of reading in the Elizabethan period ... Miola's book offers a way into the fascinating work on histories and theories of reading being carried out by Philippe Aries, Robert Darnton, Peggy Kamuf, Kevin Sharpe, and others. Modern Language Review Students should appreciate Miola's introduction to Renaissance printing practices, as well as his discussion of the economics of the book trade. Ben Jonson Journal The most interesting recent development in Shakespeare publishing has been the establishment of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics ... Miola's book promises well for the series. It is a clear distillation of much careful thought and research, with incisive readings of a variety of plays and poems often illuminated by references to recent Shakespeare productions and films, as well as more popular culture. ENGLISH Miola is an assured and trustworthy guide who always makes judicious use of the space available to him and carefully works out what Shakespeare could and could not have known. ENGLISH Oxford University Press offer a mix of engagingly written introductions to a variety of Topics intended largely for undergraduates. Each author has clearly been reading and listening to the most recent scholarship, but they wear their learning lightly. Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement Let us welcome Miola's smart and stylish monograph, an indispensable one-volume introduction to the vexed subject that shows exactly how Shakespeare transformed his sources - Ovid, Plutarch, Virgil, Chaucer, Gower, diverse obscure Italians et cetera - into something rich and strange. Stephen Poole, The Guardian

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Robert S. Miola is Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor of English at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland.

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