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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... performance , stakes out and participates in a public sphere ; little by little playwrights and printers decide to commit these texts to print . Late sixteenth- century England witnesses an ever - increasing number of printed playtexts ...
... performance , stakes out and participates in a public sphere ; little by little playwrights and printers decide to commit these texts to print . Late sixteenth- century England witnesses an ever - increasing number of printed playtexts ...
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... performance continues and triumphs in the 1640s. We know that thousands of London's citizens nevertheless went to the theater regularly, whatever suspicion hung over the playhouse. I argue that publication of playtexts assisted in the ...
... performance continues and triumphs in the 1640s. We know that thousands of London's citizens nevertheless went to the theater regularly, whatever suspicion hung over the playhouse. I argue that publication of playtexts assisted in the ...
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... performance in the theater. Erne writes: "It is one of the great paradoxes of English literary history that even though print had become an agent of greatest importance in the construction of literary reputation by the late sixteenth ...
... performance in the theater. Erne writes: "It is one of the great paradoxes of English literary history that even though print had become an agent of greatest importance in the construction of literary reputation by the late sixteenth ...
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... performance, although writers often acknowledge performance. Typically following shortly after the title page, these documents confront readers immediately, forming a boundary between the text proper and the prefatory material and ...
... performance, although writers often acknowledge performance. Typically following shortly after the title page, these documents confront readers immediately, forming a boundary between the text proper and the prefatory material and ...
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... performances" (p. 120). This may not be the answer we had hoped for, but my research reinforces Barroll's position even in the matter of patronage of dramatic texts. This healthy skepticism, if not agnosticism, does not vitiate the ...
... performances" (p. 120). This may not be the answer we had hoped for, but my research reinforces Barroll's position even in the matter of patronage of dramatic texts. This healthy skepticism, if not agnosticism, does not vitiate 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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