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244 - Self-Help Shakespeare

from Part XXIV - Shakespeare and the Book

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Kristine Johanson
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1724 - 1728
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Bate, Jonathan. Shakespearean Constitutions: Politics, Theatre, Criticism, 1730–1830. Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.Google Scholar
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Moss, Ann. Printed Commonplace-Books and the Restructuring of Renaissance Thought. Oxford: Clarendon; New York: Oxford UP, 1996.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Taylor, Gary. Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present. London: Hogarth, 1989.Google Scholar
See also the articles on “Writing about Shakespeare” in Shakespeare Survey 58 (2005).Google Scholar

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