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Transmission as Appropriation: The Early Reception of John Benson's Edition of Shakespeare's Poems (1640)
2016
Described by modern critics as a 'mangled hodgepodge', John Benson's much edited and rearranged text of Shakespeare's Poems was considerably successful throughout the seventeenth century. While Benson's choices could be considered as attempts to cater for and partly shape the tastes of a new generation of readers, its form also incited a number of them to alter the printed work. The article focuses on the annotations of two seventeenth-century readers of the edition, the main hand in Folger STC
doi:10.13128/jems-2279-7149-18098
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