Re-situating Shakespeare as an early modern professional, in this
book Patrick Cheney views him not simply as a man of the theatre,
but also as an author with a literary career. Rather than present
himself as a national or laureate poet, as Spenser does,
Shakespeare conceals his authorship through dramaturgy, rendering
his artistic techniques and literary ambitions opaque. Accordingly,
recent scholars have attended more to his innovative theatricality
or his indifference to textuality than to his contribution to
modern English authorship. By tracking Shakespeare's
'counter-laureate authorship', Cheney builds upon his previous
study on Shakespeare and literary authorship, and demonstrates the
presence throughout the plays of sustained intertextual fictions
about the twin media of printed poetry and theatrical performance.
In challenging Spenser as England's National Poet, Shakespeare
reinvents English authorship as a key part of his legacy.
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