Research Catalog

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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Details

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

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Material culture in literature
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Material culture
• Printing
• Printing in literature
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Printing
• Material culture

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