Shakespeare and the idea of the book
"Shakespeare and the Idea of the Book is about the book in Shakespeare's plays. Focusing on seven plays, not only for the chronology and range they present, but also for their particular relationship to the book - whether it is political or humanist, cognitive or illusory, satirical or sexual, spiritual or secular, social or subjective - Scott argues that the book on stage, its literal and semantic presence, offers one of the most articulate and developed hermeneutic tools available for the study of early modern English culture."--Jacket
216 pages ; 23 cm.
9780199212101, 0199212104
76836146
Introduction : 'give me that glass, and therein will I read'
'Sad stories chanced in the times of old' : the book in performance in Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline
'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet' : teaching, perversion, and subversion in The taming of the shrew and Love's labour's lost
'Marked with a blot, damned in the book of heaven' : word, image, and the reformation of the self in Richard II
'Minding true things by what their mockeries be' : forgetting and remembering in Hamlet
'Rather like a dream than an assurance' : The tempest and the book of illusions
Conclusion : 'we turn'd o'er many books together'