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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... Richard Hardin , Geraldo de Sousa , and Kara Northway for reading portions and versions of the book . They not only gave me astute criticism and helpful comments ; they also offered unstinting support and friendship . Brian Harries ...
... Richard Hardin , Geraldo de Sousa , and Kara Northway for reading portions and versions of the book . They not only gave me astute criticism and helpful comments ; they also offered unstinting support and friendship . Brian Harries ...
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... Richard Dutton summarizes Suzanne Westfall's analysis of the presumed purposes of dramatic patronage: "it added prestige or magnificence to the patron, ... it was only a token relationship, or that it was a propaganda tool in the ...
... Richard Dutton summarizes Suzanne Westfall's analysis of the presumed purposes of dramatic patronage: "it added prestige or magnificence to the patron, ... it was only a token relationship, or that it was a propaganda tool in the ...
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... Richard Helgerson acknowledges the importance of patronage and tries to assess its meaning for Jonson. He writes: "But patronage meant far more to Jonson than money, more even than the hospitality and protection he so frequently ...
... Richard Helgerson acknowledges the importance of patronage and tries to assess its meaning for Jonson. He writes: "But patronage meant far more to Jonson than money, more even than the hospitality and protection he so frequently ...
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... part of payment sometimes." Reciprocity can be real, imagined, or hoped-for; in the long run it has little to do with money but much to do with status and protection. Thus Richard Brome in his dedication of The Antipodes (1640)
... part of payment sometimes." Reciprocity can be real, imagined, or hoped-for; in the long run it has little to do with money but much to do with status and protection. Thus Richard Brome in his dedication of The Antipodes (1640)
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David M. Bergeron. Thus Richard Brome in his dedication of The Antipodes (1640) writes to William Seymour: "I hope your protection." No matter how well-established the dramatists seem, they retain this lingering thought that they and ...
David M. Bergeron. Thus Richard Brome in his dedication of The Antipodes (1640) writes to William Seymour: "I hope your protection." No matter how well-established the dramatists seem, they retain this lingering thought that they and ...
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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