Chapter Two “Speech ... well penned”: Interfaces of Orality and Literacy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction Mediatic Shakespeare 1
6. Chapter One “Offices ... of mediation”: Shakespeare’s Media Ecology 9
7. Chapter Two “Speech ... well penned”: Interfaces of Orality and Literacy 41
8. Chapter Three “Th’untuned and jarring senses”: The Breakdown of the Sensus Communis 88
9. Chapter Four “A copie out of mine”: The Printing Involution 131
10. Conclusion From the Songs of Apollo to the Words of Mercury 168
11. Notes 175
12. Bibliography 249
13. Index 273