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Shakespeare's letters / Alan Stewart.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: xvi, 405 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780199549276
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.33 22
LOC classification:
  • PR3069.L46 S74 2008
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Contents:
Searching for Shakespeare's letters -- The materiality of Shakespeare's letters -- Shakespeare's Roman letters -- Shakespeare and the carriers -- Shylock is Shakespeare: letters of credit in The merchant of Venice -- The matter of messengers in King Lear -- Lovers' lines: letters to Ophelia -- Rewriting Hamlet.
Dissertation note: hakespeare's plays are stuffed with letters - 111 appear on stage in all but five of his dramas. But for modern actors, directors, and critics they are frequently an awkward embarrassment. Alan Stewart shows how and why Shakespeare put letters on stage in virtually all of his plays. By reconstructing the very different uses to which letters were put in Shakespeare's time
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hakespeare's plays are stuffed with letters - 111 appear on stage in all but five of his dramas. But for modern actors, directors, and critics they are frequently an awkward embarrassment. Alan Stewart shows how and why Shakespeare put letters on stage in virtually all of his plays. By reconstructing the very different uses to which letters were put in Shakespeare's time

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-392) and index.

Searching for Shakespeare's letters -- The materiality of Shakespeare's letters -- Shakespeare's Roman letters -- Shakespeare and the carriers -- Shylock is Shakespeare: letters of credit in The merchant of Venice -- The matter of messengers in King Lear -- Lovers' lines: letters to Ophelia -- Rewriting Hamlet.

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