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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... Robert Weimann writes of a "circulation of authority," which he characterizes as a movement "from writing to playing and, simultaneously, from playing to writing, with both circuits connected to a crucial court of social appeal and ...
... Robert Weimann writes of a "circulation of authority," which he characterizes as a movement "from writing to playing and, simultaneously, from playing to writing, with both circuits connected to a crucial court of social appeal and ...
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... Robert Evans reminds us: "The growing economic independence of the professional writer ... should not lead us to ... suppose that because his main income derived from the stage a writer was exempt from the influence of the patronage ...
... Robert Evans reminds us: "The growing economic independence of the professional writer ... should not lead us to ... suppose that because his main income derived from the stage a writer was exempt from the influence of the patronage ...
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... might need to be placated and cajoled."30 "Eventually" may make this statement ultimately correct, but we would have to have a more specific time frame to assess the validity of this claim. In a similar vein, Robert Miola.
... might need to be placated and cajoled."30 "Eventually" may make this statement ultimately correct, but we would have to have a more specific time frame to assess the validity of this claim. In a similar vein, Robert Miola.
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David M. Bergeron. validity of this claim. In a similar vein, Robert Miola suggests that the economies of print culture topple the old system of patronage.31 Paul Voss writes that "the printing press irrevocably altered the practice of ...
David M. Bergeron. validity of this claim. In a similar vein, Robert Miola suggests that the economies of print culture topple the old system of patronage.31 Paul Voss writes that "the printing press irrevocably altered the practice of ...
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... Robert Weimann, Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 30. 10 The Norton Shakespeare, general editor Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton, 1997); ...
... Robert Weimann, Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 30. 10 The Norton Shakespeare, general editor Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton, 1997); ...
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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