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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 36
Page
... seek out multiple persons or institutions. Addresses to readers imagine an unnumbered group of people. Edward Sharpham in his dedication to Cupids Whirligig (1607) makes the distinction thus : the dedication can be likened to a bullet ...
... seek out multiple persons or institutions. Addresses to readers imagine an unnumbered group of people. Edward Sharpham in his dedication to Cupids Whirligig (1607) makes the distinction thus : the dedication can be likened to a bullet ...
Page
... seek patronage from aristocrats and friends through published texts in this system of "textual patronage." Authors' voices, captured in paratexts, sound out clearly at the end of this historical period in their search for status and ...
... seek patronage from aristocrats and friends through published texts in this system of "textual patronage." Authors' voices, captured in paratexts, sound out clearly at the end of this historical period in their search for status and ...
Page
... seeking of readers, as attested in prefatory texts, underlines the authorial quest, that the textual economies of textual patronage merge into and help clarify authorship. In the Elizabethan period, for example, a group of university ...
... seeking of readers, as attested in prefatory texts, underlines the authorial quest, that the textual economies of textual patronage merge into and help clarify authorship. In the Elizabethan period, for example, a group of university ...
Page
... a greater role for women than usually understood . We have learned much about the coterie that surrounded Queen Anne when she arrived from Scotland in 1603. Playwrights seek recognition and possible financial support.
... a greater role for women than usually understood . We have learned much about the coterie that surrounded Queen Anne when she arrived from Scotland in 1603. Playwrights seek recognition and possible financial support.
Page
David M. Bergeron. Scotland in 1603. Playwrights seek recognition and possible financial support from these women, or they use this textual occasion to celebrate and honor them, underscoring the operation of textual patronage. I single ...
David M. Bergeron. Scotland in 1603. Playwrights seek recognition and possible financial support from these women, or they use this textual occasion to celebrate and honor them, underscoring the operation of textual patronage. I single ...
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 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acknowledges actor's voice actors address readers address to readers Apology authorship Beaumont Ben Jonson Blount Brome Cambridge University Press Chapman Churchyard comedy Countess Countess of Bedford court cultural dedications and addresses discussion dramatic texts dramatists Earl edition English entertainment epistle dedicatory favor Fletcher Folio function genre hath Heminge and Condell Henry Herbert brothers honor insists Jacobean James Shirley John Ford John Marston Jones Jonson King's King's Men Lady literary Loewenstein London Lord Chamberlain Marston masque Massinger mayor Middleton Moseley noble construction offers pageant paratexts patrons Pembroke performance Philip Massinger Philotas play playhouse playtexts playwright poems poet preface prefatory documents prefatory material printed text printers and publishers publication quarto Queen quotations reading refers Renaissance Richard Robert Samuel Daniel seek Sejanus Shakespeare system of patronage textual economy textual patronage theater audiences theatrical Thomas Dekker Thomas Heywood Thomas Middleton Tragedy underscores Volpone Webster William women writes