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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... cultural domain" (p. 89). Wall offers another version of the stigma of print. I think that as we move into the seventeenth century the notion of the theater as a "socially suspect" institution resonates less, even though opposition to ...
... cultural domain" (p. 89). Wall offers another version of the stigma of print. I think that as we move into the seventeenth century the notion of the theater as a "socially suspect" institution resonates less, even though opposition to ...
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... cultural practices" that constitute what Greenblatt calls a "poetics of culture" (p. 5). Greenblatt writes: "We can say, perhaps, that an individual play mediates between the mode of the theater, understood in its historical specificity ...
... cultural practices" that constitute what Greenblatt calls a "poetics of culture" (p. 5). Greenblatt writes: "We can say, perhaps, that an individual play mediates between the mode of the theater, understood in its historical specificity ...
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... cultural patronage—the responding, judging, applauding audience."9 Weimann, who moves imaginatively between the "author's pen" and "actor's voice," nevertheless locates authority in the theatrical experience, ultimately determined by ...
... cultural patronage—the responding, judging, applauding audience."9 Weimann, who moves imaginatively between the "author's pen" and "actor's voice," nevertheless locates authority in the theatrical experience, ultimately determined by ...
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... cultural context demands that the writer fill this form full, not leaving it "empty." In part we can define this genre by its location in the text and by its purpose even as these documents range from brief to copious, from intimate to ...
... cultural context demands that the writer fill this form full, not leaving it "empty." In part we can define this genre by its location in the text and by its purpose even as these documents range from brief to copious, from intimate to ...
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... cultural production . Joseph Loewenstein provides a vivid image that captures the dynamics of the exchange when he ... culturally looking at each other , we can underscore their complementary and at times times oppositional nature , each ...
... cultural production . Joseph Loewenstein provides a vivid image that captures the dynamics of the exchange when he ... culturally looking at each other , we can underscore their complementary and at times times oppositional nature , each ...
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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