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• catalog abstract "This study of the written and printed word on the stage of Shakespeare and his contemporaries begins by considering the significance of writing and printing in Renaissance culture. Winner of the University of Delaware Press Shakespeare Studies Award, it focuses on the work of Erasmus and Luther, who shaped attitudes toward the written word, encouraged the growth of literacy, fostered the founding of schools, and invested the written and printed word with a new and enhanced status. It also treats the invention of the printing press and the steady infiltration of books into people's lives, from their place of work to their place of worship. Author Frederick Kiefer goes on to examine the English accommodation of the forces that Erasmus and Luther helped set in motion, particularly the implications for the theater. Within a culture in which writing and printing were achieving unprecedented ascendancy, English playwrights used books, letters, and documents as props. Written materials and printed books became important to the dramatization of religious controversy, social conflict, and spiritual psychomachia. Playwrights also made extraordinary use of metaphors involving the written and printed word to describe the workings of the mind and the interaction of people. 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.".
• catalog contributor b10055450.
• catalog coverage "England Intellectual life 16th century.".
• catalog coverage "England Intellectual life 17th century.".
• catalog created "c1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "c1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
• catalog description "1. Erasmus, Luther, and the Scriptural Word -- 2. Written Words and Printed Books -- 3. Ideology, Printing Press, and Stage -- 4. Writing and Print as Figurative Language -- 5. The Book of Conscience -- 6. Conscience on the Stage -- 7. The Book of Nature -- 8. Nature on the Stage -- 9. The Book of Fate -- 10. Fate on the Stage -- Appendix 1. Elizabethan Literacy -- Appendix 2. Written and Printed Words on the Stage -- Appendix 3. The Pragmatic Value of Props Involving Writing and Print -- Appendix 4. Books and Written Materials as Symbols.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "Author Frederick Kiefer goes on to examine the English accommodation of the forces that Erasmus and Luther helped set in motion, particularly the implications for the theater. Within a culture in which writing and printing were achieving unprecedented ascendancy, English playwrights used books, letters, and documents as props. Written materials and printed books became important to the dramatization of religious controversy, social conflict, and spiritual psychomachia. Playwrights also made extraordinary use of metaphors involving the written and printed word to describe the workings of the mind and the interaction of people.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-359) and index.".
• catalog description "This study of the written and printed word on the stage of Shakespeare and his contemporaries begins by considering the significance of writing and printing in Renaissance culture. Winner of the University of Delaware Press Shakespeare Studies Award, it focuses on the work of Erasmus and Luther, who shaped attitudes toward the written word, encouraged the growth of literacy, fostered the founding of schools, and invested the written and printed word with a new and enhanced status. It also treats the invention of the printing press and the steady infiltration of books into people's lives, from their place of work to their place of worship.".
• catalog extent "377 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Writing on the Renaissance stage.".
• catalog identifier "0874135958 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Writing on the Renaissance stage.".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "c1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
• catalog relation "Writing on the Renaissance stage.".
• catalog spatial "England Intellectual life 16th century.".
• catalog spatial "England Intellectual life 17th century.".
• catalog spatial "England".
• catalog spatial "England.".
• catalog subject "822/.309357 20".
• catalog subject "Books and reading England History 16th century.".
• catalog subject "Books and reading England History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Books and reading England History.".
• catalog subject "Books and reading in literature.".
• catalog subject "English drama 17th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Metaphor.".
• catalog subject "PR658.W7 K54 1996".
• catalog subject "Printing in literature.".
• catalog subject "Renaissance England.".
• catalog subject "Theater England History 16th century.".
• catalog subject "Theater England History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Theater England History.".
• catalog subject "Theater audiences England History 16th century.".
• catalog subject "Theater audiences England History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Theater audiences England History.".
• catalog subject "Writing in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Erasmus, Luther, and the Scriptural Word -- 2. Written Words and Printed Books -- 3. Ideology, Printing Press, and Stage -- 4. Writing and Print as Figurative Language -- 5. The Book of Conscience -- 6. Conscience on the Stage -- 7. The Book of Nature -- 8. Nature on the Stage -- 9. The Book of Fate -- 10. Fate on the Stage -- Appendix 1. Elizabethan Literacy -- Appendix 2. Written and Printed Words on the Stage -- Appendix 3. The Pragmatic Value of Props Involving Writing and Print -- Appendix 4. Books and Written Materials as Symbols.".
• catalog title "Writing on the Renaissance stage : written words, printed pages, metaphoric books / Frederick Kiefer.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".