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Author Scott, Charlotte.

Title Shakespeare and the idea of the book / Charlotte Scott
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (216 pages)
Series Oxford Shakespeare topics
Oxford Shakespeare topics.
Contents Introduction : 'give me that glass, and therein will I read' -- 'Sad stories chanced in the times of old' : the book in performance in Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline -- 'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet' : teaching, perversion, and subversion in The taming of the shrew and Love's labour's lost -- 'Marked with a blot, damned in the book of heaven' : word, image, and the reformation of the self in Richard II -- 'Minding true things by what their mockeries be' : forgetting and remembering in Hamlet -- 'Rather like a dream than an assurance' : The tempest and the book of illusions -- Conclusion : 'we turn'd o'er many books together'
Summary This book explores the conversations between two media, the book and the stage, as they evolved in both competition and sympathy. Focusing on seven of Shakespeare's plays, it argues the book on stage, as both object and idea, offers one of the most articulate and developed hermeneutic tools available in the study of early modern English culture. - ;The 'book' - both material and metaphoric - is strewn throughout Shakespeare's plays: it is held by Hamlet as he turns through revenge to madness; buried deep in the mudded ooze by Prospero when he has shaken out his art like music and violence; it
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-212) and index
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Books
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Books and reading in literature.
Books in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
Books
Books and reading in literature
Books in literature
Lezen.
Boeken.
Form Electronic book
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