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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... editions of Renaissance drama often omit these epistles and addresses or relegate them to appendices, thereby discounting their importance. One can, for example, look at three different complete Shakespeare editions published in 1997 ...
... editions of Renaissance drama often omit these epistles and addresses or relegate them to appendices, thereby discounting their importance. One can, for example, look at three different complete Shakespeare editions published in 1997 ...
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... editions in the next fifty years, stands as a model for Shakespeare's era. All epistles rest on the assumption of absence as Day reminds us, hence the need of the writer to communicate through this means to the reader. Letters reach ...
... editions in the next fifty years, stands as a model for Shakespeare's era. All epistles rest on the assumption of absence as Day reminds us, hence the need of the writer to communicate through this means to the reader. Letters reach ...
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... editions the play might have. For example, Thomas Heywood in Rape of Lucrece addresses readers in the first quarto edition published in 1608; here he expresses a reluctance to have sold his text to a printer, as if he has somehow ...
... editions the play might have. For example, Thomas Heywood in Rape of Lucrece addresses readers in the first quarto edition published in 1608; here he expresses a reluctance to have sold his text to a printer, as if he has somehow ...
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... edition of Gorboduc as the starting point for this narrative; here Day wrestles in vivid images with questions about the authenticity of the text. Other printers and publishers focus on the editorial function that they have assumed and ...
... edition of Gorboduc as the starting point for this narrative; here Day wrestles in vivid images with questions about the authenticity of the text. Other printers and publishers focus on the editorial function that they have assumed and ...
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... Edition, revised edition, eds. Stephen Orgel and A.R. Braunmuller (New York: Penguin, 2002) does include the opening pages of the Folio and a brief discussion of the dedication and address. 11 G.E. Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage ...
... Edition, revised edition, eds. Stephen Orgel and A.R. Braunmuller (New York: Penguin, 2002) does include the opening pages of the Folio and a brief discussion of the dedication and address. 11 G.E. Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage ...
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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