Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570-1640Routledge, 2017 M11 28 - 257 pages Through an investigation of the dedications and addresses from various printed plays of the English Renaissance, the author recuperates the richness of these prefaces and connects them to the practice of patronage. The prefatory matter discussed ranges from the printer John Day's address to readers (the first of its kind) in the 1570 edition of Gorboduc to Richard Brome's dedication to William Seymour and address to readers in his 1640 play, Antipodes. The study includes discussion of prefaces in plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries as well as Shakespeare himself, among them Marston, Jonson, and Heywood. The author uses these prefaces to show that English playwrights, printers and publishers looked in two directions, toward aristocrats and toward a reading public, in order to secure status for and dissemination of dramatic texts. The author points out that dedications and addresses to readers constitute obvious signs that printers, publishers and playwrights in the period increasingly saw these dramatic texts as occupying a rightful place in the humanistic and commercial endeavor of book production. |
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... Jonson 6 The King's Men King's Men : Shakespeare and Folio Patronage 7 Thomas Heywood's Apology for Readers ( 1608-1638 ) 8 " Your noble construction " : Textual Patronage in the 1630s Epilogue : L'envoi Appendix : Plays with ...
... Jonson 6 The King's Men King's Men : Shakespeare and Folio Patronage 7 Thomas Heywood's Apology for Readers ( 1608-1638 ) 8 " Your noble construction " : Textual Patronage in the 1630s Epilogue : L'envoi Appendix : Plays with ...
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... Jonson's dedication to Lady Mary Wroth in The Alchemist (1612) Fig. 4.1a-b. John Marston's address to readers in The Malcontent (1604) Fig. 4.2a-b. John Webster's address to readers in The White Devil (1612) Fig. 4.3. John Fletcher's ...
... Jonson's dedication to Lady Mary Wroth in The Alchemist (1612) Fig. 4.1a-b. John Marston's address to readers in The Malcontent (1604) Fig. 4.2a-b. John Webster's address to readers in The White Devil (1612) Fig. 4.3. John Fletcher's ...
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... Jonson. He writes: "But patronage meant far more to Jonson than money, more even than the hospitality and protection he so frequently acknowledges. Entry into the system of patronage was a sign of his poetic elevation, testimony to his ...
... Jonson. He writes: "But patronage meant far more to Jonson than money, more even than the hospitality and protection he so frequently acknowledges. Entry into the system of patronage was a sign of his poetic elevation, testimony to his ...
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... Jonson certainly are occasional exceptions), the public theater, as this book will be demonstrating, never filled that imagined or real gap. Aristocratic patronage, even for dramatists, remained viable and necessary up to and including ...
... Jonson certainly are occasional exceptions), the public theater, as this book will be demonstrating, never filled that imagined or real gap. Aristocratic patronage, even for dramatists, remained viable and necessary up to and including ...
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... Jonson, we find a writer who from the beginning assumed a reading audience that he certainly found superior to theater audiences. Kevin Sharpe has written: "The growing number of dedications to readers, however, implies a reciprocal ...
... Jonson, we find a writer who from the beginning assumed a reading audience that he certainly found superior to theater audiences. Kevin Sharpe has written: "The growing number of dedications to readers, however, implies a reciprocal ...
Contents
Pageants Masques | |
Women as Patrons of Drama | |
Marston and Colleagues | |
Shakespeare and Folio | |
Thomas Heywoods Apology for Readers 16081638 | |
Textual Patronage in | |
Lenvoi | |
Index | |
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