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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... book's title: from playhouse to printing house.27 More concerned with questions of authorship than patronage, Brooks has nevertheless added a necessary variable and expansion to Kernan's proposed proposed linear development .
... book's title: from playhouse to printing house.27 More concerned with questions of authorship than patronage, Brooks has nevertheless added a necessary variable and expansion to Kernan's proposed proposed linear development .
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... authorship . " We might then , " he adds , " see the writer as entering not so much into a market transaction , but into a form of exchange which more closely resembles the system of obligation and reciprocation that attends classical ...
... authorship . " We might then , " he adds , " see the writer as entering not so much into a market transaction , but into a form of exchange which more closely resembles the system of obligation and reciprocation that attends classical ...
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... authorship provides value to the textual commodity, but this value grants a currency to the text that draws it from its author."38 Dunn has described the contestation and circulation of textual patronage. Various metaphors help define ...
... authorship provides value to the textual commodity, but this value grants a currency to the text that draws it from its author."38 Dunn has described the contestation and circulation of textual patronage. Various metaphors help define ...
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... authorship . Trying to be a writer may have to come up against this bleak assessment : " At the beginning of the sixteenth century England was a small , backward , and unimportant appendage of Christendom , where printing had arrived ...
... authorship . Trying to be a writer may have to come up against this bleak assessment : " At the beginning of the sixteenth century England was a small , backward , and unimportant appendage of Christendom , where printing had arrived ...
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... authorship for dramatists. First, they found no adequate precedent from the ancient or medieval world, where at least in the latter not even the identity of the playwright became known. They would have known much about being a poet, but ...
... authorship for dramatists. First, they found no adequate precedent from the ancient or medieval world, where at least in the latter not even the identity of the playwright became known. They would have known much about being a poet, but ...
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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