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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... Textual Patronage in English Drama , 1570-1640 David M. Bergeron University of Kansas , USA ROUTLEDGE Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing Reissued 2018 by Routledge.
... Textual Patronage in English Drama , 1570-1640 David M. Bergeron University of Kansas , USA ROUTLEDGE Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing Reissued 2018 by Routledge.
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... London's citizens nevertheless went to the theater regularly, whatever suspicion hung over the playhouse. I argue that publication of playtexts assisted in the legitimation process, as they began to resemble other kinds of texts in ...
... London's citizens nevertheless went to the theater regularly, whatever suspicion hung over the playhouse. I argue that publication of playtexts assisted in the legitimation process, as they began to resemble other kinds of texts in ...
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... London dramatic companies first known to us in the last decade of Queen Elizabeth's reign."18 Barroll thus answers positively his own question: "are there indications that nobles functioned as patrons for common players, companies, and ...
... London dramatic companies first known to us in the last decade of Queen Elizabeth's reign."18 Barroll thus answers positively his own question: "are there indications that nobles functioned as patrons for common players, companies, and ...
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... London constitute " sites of rapid commercial growth . " 28 With bookstall and theater culturally looking at each other , we can underscore their complementary and at times times oppositional nature , each experiencing growth and ...
... London constitute " sites of rapid commercial growth . " 28 With bookstall and theater culturally looking at each other , we can underscore their complementary and at times times oppositional nature , each experiencing growth and ...
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... London before the final quarter of the sixteenth century. What position therefore does the playwright now occupy with regard to acting companies and theater buildings? Answers help define what it means to be an author. Third, there had ...
... London before the final quarter of the sixteenth century. What position therefore does the playwright now occupy with regard to acting companies and theater buildings? Answers help define what it means to be an author. Third, there had ...
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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