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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... playwrights function in the early stages of publication by print . Manuscript and scribal culture remains viable , and many literary texts , especially poetry , continue in their coterie - bound circulation . But drama , by its nature ...
... playwrights function in the early stages of publication by print . Manuscript and scribal culture remains viable , and many literary texts , especially poetry , continue in their coterie - bound circulation . But drama , by its nature ...
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... playwrights functioned in a kind of parallel universe that already had a major public dimension and perhaps because of that they seemed for the most part less reluctant to commit texts to print, once such publication became feasible ...
... playwrights functioned in a kind of parallel universe that already had a major public dimension and perhaps because of that they seemed for the most part less reluctant to commit texts to print, once such publication became feasible ...
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... playwright Northrop Frye writes: "In drama, the hypothetical or internal characters of the story confront the audience directly, hence the drama is marked by the concealment of the author from his audience."12 The prefatory dedications ...
... playwright Northrop Frye writes: "In drama, the hypothetical or internal characters of the story confront the audience directly, hence the drama is marked by the concealment of the author from his audience."12 The prefatory dedications ...
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... playwright has written such an item, he does not change it, no matter how many subsequent editions the play might ... playwright's status and possible career. About Renaissance genre, Rosalie Colie shrewdly reminds us: "I am not now ...
... playwright has written such an item, he does not change it, no matter how many subsequent editions the play might ... playwright's status and possible career. About Renaissance genre, Rosalie Colie shrewdly reminds us: "I am not now ...
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... playwright in search of generous readers. Such readers constitute the patrons of dramatic texts. How should we ... Playwrights regularly dedicate texts to patrons (aristocrats or readers), but the effects of this action we must surmise ...
... playwright in search of generous readers. Such readers constitute the patrons of dramatic texts. How should we ... Playwrights regularly dedicate texts to patrons (aristocrats or readers), but the effects of this action we must surmise ...
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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