Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books

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University of Delaware Press, 1996 - 377 ˹éÒ
As people turned increasingly to the written and printed word for instruction and inspiration, they spoke of their lives in language generated by the print shop, library, and study. Conceiving of their experience in terms of writing and printing, they employed metaphoric books when they envisioned abstractions. They spoke, for example, of the books of conscience, nature, and fate. Such metaphors allowed people to organize conceptually the diversity and unruliness' of everyday life. Metaphoric books are the focus of this study's final section. Particular attention is given to the book of conscience in Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness and George Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois; the book of nature in Shakespeare's As You Like It and Pericles; and the book of fate in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.
 

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Erasmus Luther and the Scriptural Word
21
Written Words and Printed Books
44
Part Two
71
Ideology Printing Press and Stage
73
Writing and Print as Figurative Language
89
Part Three
109
The Book of Conscience
111
Conscience on the Stage
124
Fate on the Stage
232
Conclusion
264
Elizabethan Literacy
268
Written and Printed Words on the Stage
275
The Pragmatic Value of Property Letters
283
Books and Written Materials as Symbols
287
Notes
297
Select Bibliography
347

The Book of Nature
163
Nature on the Stage
180
The Book of Fate
219

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