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Impressive Shakespeare : identity, authority and the imprint in Shakespearean drama

Title
Impressive Shakespeare : identity, authority and the imprint in Shakespearean drama / Harry Newman.
Author
Newman, Harry (Harry Rex)
Publication
  • London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
xii, 199 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"Impressive Shakespeare reassesses Shakespeare's relationship with 'print culture' in light of his plays' engagement with the language and material culture of three interrelated 'impressing technologies': wax sealing, coining, and typographic printing. It analyses the material and rhetorical forms through which drama was thought to 'imprint' early modern audiences and readers with ideas, morals and memories, and--looking to our own cultural moment--shows how Shakespeare has been historically constructed as an 'impressive' dramatist. Through material readings of four plays--Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale--Harry Newman argues that Shakespeare deploys the imprint as a self-reflexive trope in order to advertise the value of his plays to audiences and readers, and that in turn the language of impression has shaped, and continues to shape, Shakespeare's critical afterlife. The book pushes the boundaries of what we understand by 'print culture', and challenges assumptions about the emergence of concepts now central to Shakespeare's perceived canonical value, such as penetrating characterisation, poetic transformation, and literary fatherhood"--
Series Statement
Material readings in early modern culture
Uniform Title
Material readings in early modern culture.
Subjects
Note
  • Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Birmingham, 2012.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-193) and index.
Contents
Introduction: the stamp of the bard -- Technology, language, physiology -- "[T]he stamp of Martius": commoditised character and the technology of theatrical impression in Coriolanus -- "[A] form in wax,/by him imprinted": sealing and poetics in A midsummer night's dream -- "[S]tamps that are forbid": Measure for measure,counterfeit coinage, and the politics of value -- The printer's tale: books, children, and the prefatory construction of Shakespearean authorship -- Conclusion: canon, reproduction, ethics.
Call Number
JFE 19-6194
ISBN
  • 9781472465320
  • 1472465326
LCCN
2018052476
OCLC
1082296913
Author
Newman, Harry (Harry Rex), author.
Title
Impressive Shakespeare : identity, authority and the imprint in Shakespearean drama / Harry Newman.
Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Material readings in early modern culture
Material readings in early modern culture.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-193) and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Newman, Harry (Harry Rex), author. Impressive Shakespeare New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9781315588001 (DLC) 2019001122
Research Call Number
JFE 19-6194
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