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Canonising Shakespeare - Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740 (Hardcover)
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Canonising Shakespeare - Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740 (Hardcover)
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Canonising Shakespeare offers the first comprehensive reassessment
of Shakespeare's afterlife as a print phenomenon, demonstrating the
crucial role that the book trade played in his rise to cultural
pre-eminence. 1640-1740 was the period in which Shakespeare's canon
was determined, in which the poems resumed their place alongside
the plays in print, and in which artisans and named editors crafted
a new, contemporary Shakespeare for Restoration and
eighteenth-century consumers. A team of international contributors
highlight the impact of individual booksellers, printers,
publishers and editors on the Shakespearean text, the books in
which it was presented, and the ways in which it was promoted. From
radical adaptations of the Sonnets to new characters in plays, and
from elegant subscription volumes to cheap editions churned out by
feuding publishers, this period was marked by eclecticism,
contradiction and innovation as stationers looked to the past and
the future to create a Shakespeare for their own times.
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