Addressing the Addressee: Shakespeare and Early Modern Epistolary Theory

Considering the emergence of epistolary theory in mid-sixteenth-century England, its value and function, the article attempts to show how these theories helped to construct, in contemporary correspondence, the addressee’s identity. One of the most important precepts was, as Angel Day states in his m...

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Main Author: Kerry Gilbert-Cooke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2014-03-01
Series:Journal of Early Modern Studies
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/7024