Remembering Shakespeare

David Kastan, Kathryn James

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Remembering Shakespeare

2012
Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, manuscripts, etc.Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, criticism and interpretationManuscriptsCriticism and interpretationExhibitionsBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Examines such treasures as the earliest known manuscript of "Macbeth", a sixteenth-century reader's notes on Shakespeare, and a proof copy of Walt Whitman's "Shakespeare-Bacon's Cipher", to show how various, idiosyncratic acts of memory over hundreds of years have given us the texts, and even the person, we remember as 'Shakespeare'.

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