Shakespeare and the Book (Hardcover)

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 establish and restore the "genuine" texts, and the exhilarating possibilities of electronic media for presenting Shakespeare now to new generations of readers. This is an important contribution to Shakespearean textual scholarship, to the history of the early English book trade, and to the theory of drama itself.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2001
First published:	2001
Authors:	David Scott Kastan
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-78139-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
LSN:	0-521-78139-6
Barcode:	9780521781398

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