Welcome to Reading Shakespeare’s Early Readers 1590-1800

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Who were Shakespeare’s first readers and what did they think of his works?

This website reconsiders the role of readers in the history of Shakespeare’s rise to fame and in the history of canon formation. Addressing an essential formative “moment” when Shakespeare became a literary dramatist six crucial fields are explored through various pages and short articles.

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