Table of Contents

1: Introduction: 'Give me that glass, and therein will I read'
2: 'Sad stories chanced in the times of old': the book in performance in Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline
3: 'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet': teaching, perversion, and subversion in The Taming of The Shrew and Love's Labour's Lost
4: 'Marked with a blot, damned in the book of heaven': word, image, and the Reformation of the self in Richard II
5: 'Minding true things by what their mockeries be': forgetting and remembering in Hamlet
6: 'Rather like a dream than an assurance': The Tempest and the Book of Illusions
7: Conclusion: 'We turn'd o'er many books together'

About the Author

Charlotte Scott is a Lecturer in Shakespeare at Goldsmiths College, The University of London.

Reviews

The premise of Shakespeare and the Idea of the Book is very refreshing...challenges us to rethink the history of the material text and the extraordinary diversity of Shakespearean thought. Sean Keilen, Shakespeare Quarterly