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Impressive Shakespeare
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 mate-
rial 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.
Harry Newman
is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature
at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
Series editors: James Daybell, Plymouth University, UK and Adam
Smyth, Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK
The series provides a forum for studies that consider the material forms
of texts as part of an investigation into the culture of early modern
England. The editors invite proposals of a multi- or interdisciplinary
nature, and particularly welcome proposals that combine archival
research with an attention to theoretical models that might illuminate
the reading, writing, and making of texts, as well as projects that take
innovative approaches to the study of material texts, both in terms of
the kinds of primary materials under investigation, and in terms of
methodologies. What are the questions that have yet to be asked about
writing in its various possible embodied forms? Are there varieties of
materiality that are critically neglected? How does form mediate and
negotiate content? In what ways do the physical features of texts inform
how they are read, interpreted and situated?
Recent in this series:
Text, Food And The Early Modern Reader
Eating Words
Edited by Jason Scott-Warren and Andrew Zurcher
Reading Drama in Tudor England
Tamara Atkin
The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature
Rachel Stenner
Impressive Shakespeare
Identity, Authority and the Imprint in Shakespearean Drama
Harry Newman
For more information on this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.
com/literature/series/ASHSER2222
Impressive Shakespeare
Identity, Authority and the Imprint in
Shakespearean Drama
Harry Newman
First published 2019
by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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ISBN: 978-1-4724-6532-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-58800-1 (ebk)
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