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Shakespeare in the Restoration Royal Libraries: Drama, Collecting, and Continuity in Late Seventeenth-Century Library Catalogues

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Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Volume: 160

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This essay introduces two royal library catalogues from the late seventeenth century and uses them to examine the holdings of Shakespeare and other English drama in the royal collection after the Restoration. The catalogues allow us to reconstruct a set of twenty-eight Sammelband volumes of play qua...

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Published in: Shakespeare Jahrbuch
Published: Kröner Verlag (Stuttgart) 2024
Online Access: https://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/shakespeare-jahrbuch/shakespeare-jahrbuch-2019-2-2-2-2-2/
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