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In Theaters of Translation: Cosmopolitan Vernaculars in Shakespeare’s England, Andrew S. Keener argues that plays by Thomas Kyd, Mary Sidney Herbert, Ben Jonson, and others were shaped by and contributed to a multilingual Europe full of dictionaries, grammars, and language-learning dialogues. Bringing together critical discussions and methodologies in transnational literary studies, book history, and the history of theater and performance, Keener proposes a fresh, multilingual approach to English Renaissance drama in a way that also liberates the histories of early modern languages and literatures from their national silos.

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""Theaters of Translation is a capacious, smart, and interesting book. Keener productively brings together print, manuscript, and stage, showing similarities between language books and plays in print and how language learning books influenced the stage and were used by their playgoing readers. His writing style is clear, concise, and lively; the book is a pleasure to read, underlining its key claims without belaboring them."" --Marianne Montgomery, author of Europe's Languages on England's Stages, 1590-1620 ""Theaters of Translation is an exciting addition to an important new field. Building on an exhilarating hands-on examination of hundreds of printed books, Andrew Keener demonstrates lucidly and compellingly that English Renaissance theater was more cosmopolitan than we ever imagined."" --Alan Stewart, author of The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 2, Early Modern

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Andrew S. Keener teaches and advises at the Honors College at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His peer-reviewed scholarship has appeared in the journals Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, Shakespeare Studies, and Shakespeare Quarterly.

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