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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... playtexts available for purchase , reading , and circulation . By the early seventeenth century , some plays even begin to be collected in handsomely printed folio volumes . Dramatic texts partake of and help perpetuate the printing ...
... playtexts available for purchase , reading , and circulation . By the early seventeenth century , some plays even begin to be collected in handsomely printed folio volumes . Dramatic texts partake of and help perpetuate the printing ...
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... playtexts assisted in the legitimation process, as they began to resemble other kinds of texts in format, arrangement of contents, and prefatory material. Political authorities would have a difficult, but not impossible, time in ...
... playtexts assisted in the legitimation process, as they began to resemble other kinds of texts in format, arrangement of contents, and prefatory material. Political authorities would have a difficult, but not impossible, time in ...
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... playtext; they provide a purposefully designed entry in the material book, coming shortly after the title page, causing us to pause before launching into the text itself. Or if we move farther into the house, paratexts might resemble ...
... playtext; they provide a purposefully designed entry in the material book, coming shortly after the title page, causing us to pause before launching into the text itself. Or if we move farther into the house, paratexts might resemble ...
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... focus on the editorial function that they have assumed and center their attention on the playtext as a material object. They occasionally engage in a kind of literary criticism ; and some take on the task of rescuing.
... focus on the editorial function that they have assumed and center their attention on the playtext as a material object. They occasionally engage in a kind of literary criticism ; and some take on the task of rescuing.
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... playtexts . The actors thus skillfully position the Folio to reap the advantages of aristocratic and market - place patronage . This bifurcated perspective can serve serve as a paradigm for many dramatic texts and as a definition of ...
... playtexts . The actors thus skillfully position the Folio to reap the advantages of aristocratic and market - place patronage . This bifurcated perspective can serve serve as a paradigm for many dramatic texts and as a definition of ...
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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