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Reading Practices

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Literacy, the playbook market and the reading of plays "From the most able, to him that can but spell: There you are number'd," wrote John Heminges and Henry Condell-Shakespeare's fellow actors-in their preface "To the great Variety of Readers", which appeared in the first folio of Shakespeare's works (sig. A3 r). In a society that was still steeped in oral culture and in which the command of the written word was not a prerequisite for many professions, these statements could appear to be wishful thinking. Moreover, according to some historians' estimations, two thirds of the male
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halshs-03765954, version 1 (31-08-2022)

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Jean-Christophe Mayer. Reading Practices. Bruce R. Smith, Katherine Rowe. The Cambridge guide to the worlds of Shakespeare, Cambridge University Press, 2016, 9780521113939. ⟨halshs-03765954⟩
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