This study grows out of the intersection of two realms of scholarly
investigation - the emerging public sphere in early modern England
and the history of the book. Shakespeare's Reading Audiences
examines the ways in which different communities - humanist, legal,
religious and political - would have interpreted Shakespeare's
plays and poems, whether printed or performed. Cyndia Susan Clegg
begins by analysing elite reading clusters associated with the
Court, the universities, and the Inns of Court and how their
interpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnets and Henry V arose from
their reading of Italian humanists. She concludes by examining how
widely held public knowledge about English history both affected
Richard II's reception and how such knowledge was appropriated by
the State. She also considers The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V,
and Othello from the point of view of audience members conversant
in popular English legal writing and Macbeth from the perspective
of popular English Calvinism.
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