Reading Shakespeare's Poems in Early Modern England

by Sasha Roberts

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333740149
• ISBN13: 9780333740149
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 9.0"