Shakespeare and the Book (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521781398)

This book is a authoritative account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts to be performed into books to be read, and eventually from popular entertainment into the centerpieces of the English literary canon. Kastan examines the motives and activities of Shakespeare's first publishers; the curious eighteenth-century schizophrenia that saw Shakespeare radically modified on stage at the very moment that scholars were working to establish and restore the "genuine" texts, and the exhilarating possibilities of electronic media for presenting Shakespeare now to new generations of readers. This is an important contribution to Shakespearean textual scholarship, to the history of the early English book trade, and to the theory of drama itself.

Author: David Scott Kastan,Kastan David Scott
ISBN-10: 0521781396
ISBN-13: 9780521781398
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2001
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2002 pg. 216
Choice 06/01/2002 pg. 1770