Letterwriting in Renaissance England

Letterwriting in Renaissance England

Author: Folger Shakespeare Library

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Reproduces in full size and transcribes a number of letters from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries


The Material Letter in Early Modern England

The Material Letter in Early Modern England

Author: J. Daybell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-04-24

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1137006064

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The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.


Used Books

Used Books

Author: William Howard Sherman

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0812220846

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Based on a survey of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we can learn from these marks by using the tools of archaeologists as well as historians and literary critics.


Letter-writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present

Letter-writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present

Author: Carol Poster

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781570036514

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Once nearly as ubiquitous as dictionaries and cookbooks are today, letter-writing manuals and their predecessors served to instruct individuals not only on the art of letter composition but also, in effect, on personal conduct. Poster and Mitchell contend that the study of letter-writing theory, which bridges rhetorical theory and grammatical studies, represents an emerging discipline in need of definition. In this volume, they gather the contributions of eleven experts to sketch the contours of epistolary theory and collect the historic and bibliographic materials - from Isocrates to email - that form the basis for its study.


The Material Letter in Early Modern England

The Material Letter in Early Modern England

Author: J. Daybell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-04-24

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1137006064

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The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.


Shakespeare's Letters

Shakespeare's Letters

Author: Alan Stewart

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-11-13

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0191563560

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Shakespeare'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, and recapturing what it meant to write, send, receive, read, and archive a letter, it throws new light on some of his most familiar dramas. Early modern letters were not private missives sent through an anonymous postal system, but a vital - sometimes the only - means of maintaining contact and sending news between distant locations. Penning a letter was a serious business in a period when writers made their own pen and ink; letter-writing protocols were strict; letters were dispatched by personal messengers or carriers, often received and read in public - and Shakespeare exploited all these features to dramatic effect. Surveying the vast range of letters in Shakespeare's oeuvre, the book also features sustained new readings of Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice and Henry IV Part One.


Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700

Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700

Author: J. Daybell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-05-17

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0230598668

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This landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early eighteen century. It is the first book to deal comprehensively with women's letter writing during the Late Medieval and Early Modern period and shows that this was a larger and more socially diversified area of female activity than has generally been assumed. The essays, contributed by many of the leading researchers active in the field, illustrate women's engagement in various activities, both literary and political, social and religious.


Women Writers in Renaissance England

Women Writers in Renaissance England

Author: Randall Martin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-21

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1317862910

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Of all the new developments in literary theory, feminism has proved to be the most widely influential, leading to an expansion of the traditional English canon in all periods of study. This book aims to make the work of Renaissance women writers in English better known to general and academic readers so as to strengthen the case for their future inclusion in the Renaissance literary canon. This lively book surveys women writers in the sixteenth century and early seventeenth centuries. Its selection is vast, historically representative, and original, taking examples from twenty different, relatively unknown authors in all genres of writing, including poetry, fiction, religious works, letters and journals, translation, and books on childcare. It establishes new contexts for the debate about women as writers within the period and suggests potential intertextual connections with works by well-known male authors of the same time. Individual authors and works are given concise introductions, with both modern and historical critical analysis, setting them in a theoretical and historicised context. All texts are made readily accessible through modern spelling and punctuation, on-the-page annotation and headnotes. The substantial, up-to-date bibliography provides a source for further study and research.


Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain

Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain

Author: James Daybell

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-06-28

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0812248252

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In Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain leading scholars approach the letter from different disciplinary perspectives to illuminate its workings. Contributors to this volume examine how elements, such as handwriting, seals, ink, and use of space, were vitally significant to how letters communicated.