Shakespeare and the Book

by David Scott Kastan

Book Overview

This book is a authoritative account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts to be performed into books to be read, and eventually from popular entertainment into the centerpieces of the English literary canon. Kastan examines the motives and activities of Shakespeare's first publishers; the curious eighteenth-century schizophrenia that saw Shakespeare radically modified on stage at the very moment that scholars were working to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521786517
• ISBN13: 9780521786515
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"