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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... dramatists what with numerous public and private theaters available and an almost insatiable appetite for new plays. Thousands of people regularly filled theater venues, but playwrights did not lose sight of aristocrats and others who ...
... dramatists what with numerous public and private theaters available and an almost insatiable appetite for new plays. Thousands of people regularly filled theater venues, but playwrights did not lose sight of aristocrats and others who ...
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... as they connect with "generous" readers. Lukas Erne in Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist has become the latest scholar to weigh in on the issue of the status of the dramatic text as published, in contrast to the idea that.
... as they connect with "generous" readers. Lukas Erne in Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist has become the latest scholar to weigh in on the issue of the status of the dramatic text as published, in contrast to the idea that.
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... dramatists remained largely unaffected by these developments."7 Erne persuasively argues for the importance of print, even for dramatic texts. He observes: "our work may profit from an increased awareness of the fact that, from the very ...
... dramatists remained largely unaffected by these developments."7 Erne persuasively argues for the importance of print, even for dramatic texts. He observes: "our work may profit from an increased awareness of the fact that, from the very ...
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... dramatists create a genre compatible with that purpose. Years ago Todorov posed a question which he also answered: "From where do genres come? Why, quite simply, from other genres. A new genre is always the transformation of one or ...
... dramatists create a genre compatible with that purpose. Years ago Todorov posed a question which he also answered: "From where do genres come? Why, quite simply, from other genres. A new genre is always the transformation of one or ...
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... dramatist and his acting company. Kernan's two books certainly illustrate the complexity of the subject and the difficulty of ... dramatists, remained viable and necessary up to and including the 1630s. With the recent emphasis on the ...
... dramatist and his acting company. Kernan's two books certainly illustrate the complexity of the subject and the difficulty of ... dramatists, remained viable and necessary up to and including the 1630s. With the recent emphasis on the ...
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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