Writing on the Renaissance stage : written words, printed pages, metaphoric books
This study of the written and printed word on the stage of Shakespeare and his contemporaries begins by considering the significance of writing and printing in Renaissance culture. Winner of the University of Delaware Press Shakespeare Studies Award, it focuses on the work of Erasmus and Luther, who shaped attitudes toward the written word, encouraged the growth of literacy, fostered the founding of schools, and invested the written and printed word with a new and enhanced status. It also treats the invention of the printing press and the steady infiltration of books into people's lives, from their place of work to their place of worship
Print Book, English, ©1996
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, London, ©1996
Criticism, interpretation, etc
377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780874135954, 0874135958
34282898
1. Erasmus, Luther, and the Scriptural Word
2. Written Words and Printed Books
3. Ideology, Printing Press, and Stage
4. Writing and Print as Figurative Language
5. The Book of Conscience
6. Conscience on the Stage
7. The Book of Nature
8. Nature on the Stage
9. The Book of Fate
10. Fate on the Stage
Appendix 1. Elizabethan Literacy
Appendix 2. Written and Printed Words on the Stage
Appendix 3. The Pragmatic Value of Props Involving Writing and Print
Appendix 4. Books and Written Materials as Symbols