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The Handwriting of the Renaissance
Handwriting of the Being the Development and Characteristics of the Script of Shakspere's Time Samuel A. Tannenbaum Frederick Ungar Publishing Company 1967 Columbia University Press
210 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1930
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Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum
88 booksSamuel Aaron Tannenbaum (1874–1948) was a prolific early-20th-century literary scholar, bibliographer, and palaeographer, best known for his work on William Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Tannenbaum was born in Hungary, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; he emigrated to the United States in 1886, the year he turned fourteen, and became a citizen in 1895. Graduating from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1898, he pursued a career in psychotherapy, with a strong interest in the work of Sigmund Freud. He was part of the circle of early Freud supporters that included Ernest Jones and Sándor Ferenczi, and was connected with early efforts to establish an English-language journal of psychotherapy. He published on medical and psychological subjects, including the books The Psychology of Accidents (1924) and The Patient's Dilemma (1935).
He was the editor of the Shakespeare Association Bulletin, and through the first half of the twentieth century produced a wide range of books and articles on Shakespeare and other figures of English Renaissance theatre and literature. Combining his two major areas of interest, psychology and Elizabethan literature, Tannenbaum was one of the first commentators to consider the nature of Shakespeare's sexuality from a Freudian perspective. He also published a major series of bibliographies on significant Elizabethan and Jacobean figures that were important scholarly resources in their era. His second wife, the former Dorothy Rosenzweig (married 1942), collaborated with him on some of his later publications.
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Tannenbaum was born in Hungary, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; he emigrated to the United States in 1886, the year he turned fourteen, and became a citizen in 1895. Graduating from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1898, he pursued a career in psychotherapy, with a strong interest in the work of Sigmund Freud. He was part of the circle of early Freud supporters that included Ernest Jones and Sándor Ferenczi, and was connected with early efforts to establish an English-language journal of psychotherapy. He published on medical and psychological subjects, including the books The Psychology of Accidents (1924) and The Patient's Dilemma (1935).
He was the editor of the Shakespeare Association Bulletin, and through the first half of the twentieth century produced a wide range of books and articles on Shakespeare and other figures of English Renaissance theatre and literature. Combining his two major areas of interest, psychology and Elizabethan literature, Tannenbaum was one of the first commentators to consider the nature of Shakespeare's sexuality from a Freudian perspective. He also published a major series of bibliographies on significant Elizabethan and Jacobean figures that were important scholarly resources in their era. His second wife, the former Dorothy Rosenzweig (married 1942), collaborated with him on some of his later publications.
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December 18, 2024
Honestly fascinating I love linguistics, except it kept bothering me that the author spelled Shakespeare as “Shakspere”
July 4, 2024
Absolutely fascinating, in a deeply nerdy kind of way.
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