- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford (29 Mar 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0199212104
- ISBN-13: 978-0199212101
- Product Dimensions: 22.3 x 14.6 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 971,839 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The power of Scott's own book lies in its individual chapters, all of which offer some subtle reading. (Peter Hyland, Notes and Queries Journal )
The premise of Shakespeare and the Idea of the Book is very refreshing...challenges us to rethink the history of the material text and the extraordinary diversity of Shakespearean thought. (Sean Keilen, Shakespeare Quarterly )
Scott has a keen eye for paradox, for cultural anxiety, and for internal contradiction; they enrich her readings, and this book is full of thoughtful, penetrating details. Shakespeare and the Idea of the Book opens a treasure house of questions about this important topic, and I expect that future scholars will be citing Scott's work for many years to come.
The premise of Shakespeare and the Idea of the Book is very refreshing...challenges us to rethink the history of the material text and the extraordinary diversity of Shakespearean thought. (Sean Keilen, Shakespeare Quarterly )
Scott has a keen eye for paradox, for cultural anxiety, and for internal contradiction; they enrich her readings, and this book is full of thoughtful, penetrating details. Shakespeare and the Idea of the Book opens a treasure house of questions about this important topic, and I expect that future scholars will be citing Scott's work for many years to come.
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The 'book' - both material and metaphoric - is strewn throughout Shakespeare's plays: it is held by Hamlet as he turns through revenge to madness; buried deep in the mudded ooze by Prospero when he has shaken out his art like music and violence; it is forced by Richard II to withstand the mortality of deposition, fetishised by lovers, tormented by pedagogues, lost by kings, written by the alienated, and hung about war with the blood of lost voices. The 'book' begins and ends Shakespeare's dramatic career as change itself, standing the distance between violence and hope, between holding and losing. 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.
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