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Shakespeare's Letters (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare's Letters (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare's plays are stuffed with letters - 111 appear on stage
in all but five of his dramas. But for modern actors, directors,
and critics they are frequently an awkward embarrassment. Alan
Stewart shows how and why Shakespeare put letters on stage in
virtually all of his plays. By reconstructing the very different
uses to which letters were put in Shakespeare's time, and
recapturing what it meant to write, send, receive, read, and
archive a letter, it throws new light on some of his most familiar
dramas. Early modern letters were not private missives sent through
an anonymous postal system, but a vital - sometimes the only -
means of maintaining contact and sending news between distant
locations. Penning a letter was a serious business in a period when
writers made their own pen and ink; letter-writing protocols were
strict; letters were dispatched by personal messengers or carriers,
often received and read in public - and Shakespeare exploited all
these features to dramatic effect. Surveying the vast range of
letters in Shakespeare's oeuvre, the book also features sustained
new readings of Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The
Merchant of Venice and Henry IV Part One.
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