Sarah Roberts: Reading Shakespeare’s Poems in Early Modern England (Early Modern Literature in History).

• Dieter Mehl

Reading English Renaissance texts not so much as products of a particular historical period, for the literary critic of our own age to explicate, but as ‘commodity’ to be packaged and digested by a great variety of contemporary or near-contemporary readers, has become a recent concern of several scholars. Not a few of them would therefore agree with Sarah Roberts’ confession that she is ‘less interested in how to read Shakespeare’s poems today – the conventional role of a literary critic – than in how they were read and transmitted in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’.

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