British Studies Lecture Series
British Studies Lecture Series
British Studies Lecture Series
Why Did Elizabethans and Jacobeans Read Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Aaron Pratt HARRY RANSOM CENTER Before the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623 and the efforts of subsequent editors and critics, England’s printed playbooks were considered “riff raff,” connected more with the world of London’s popular theaters than with what we might think of as “capital-L” Literature. Or so we have been told. This […]