02699nam a22003858i 4500 36823 BD-DhAAL 20211123112555.0 191226t2019 nyu ob 001 0 eng d 42060 42060 9781315588001 (Master) 9781317118329 (ePub) 9781317118336 ( Web) 9781317118312 (Mobi) 9781472465320 DLC eng rda DLC BD-DhAAL 822.33 23 Newman, Harry 38586 Impressive Shakespeare : identity, authority and the imprint in Shakespearean drama / Harry Newman. New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. 199 pages : 24 cm. Material readings in early modern culture Includes bibliographical references and index. "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"-- ENH Parama publishers and distributors 36823 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Knowledge Printing. 38587 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Knowledge Material culture. 38588 Printing in literature. 38589 Material culture in literature. 38590 English literature. 43016 English. 38591 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 822_330000000000000_NEW 0 67494 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2019-12-17 58 7455.00 1 8 822.33 NEW 3010036823 2023-01-30 2022-09-03 1 7455.00 2019-12-17 BK