{"product_id":"impressive-shakespeare-harry-newman-9781472465320","title":"Impressive Shakespeare: Identity, Authority and the Imprint in Shakespearean Drama","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImpressive Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e 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--\u003ci\u003eCoriolanus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarry Newman's suggestive analysis of techniques and tropes of sealing, coining and printing produces a revelatory account of Shakespearean creative poetics. It's sustainedly startling in its rereading of familiar lines - but the chapter I found most original is on \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure: \u003c\/i\u003eNewman is the first critic to attempt to interpret the play's authorial status as part of its own thematic and linguistic interrogation of illegitimacy and counterfeiting. He makes authorship matter in a literary and creative, rather than a quantitative and statistical, sense. Impressive Shakespeare is a brilliant scholarly debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Emma Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor, Shakespeare Survey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor of Shakespeare Studies, Hertford College, Oxford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harry Newman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1472465326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781472465320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Harry Newman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065618903295,"sku":"9781472465320","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_14fe3cb4-80e3-40ef-8c6a-e0dcf9104037.jpg?v=1768676173","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/impressive-shakespeare-harry-newman-9781472465320","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}