Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570-1640Ashgate, 2006 - 247 pages Through an investigation of the dedications and addresses from various printed plays of the English Renaissance, David Bergeron 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 book includes an Appendix that lists plays with prefatory dedications and addresses here analyzed. 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. |
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David M. Bergeron. Massinger's Duke of Milan ( 1623 ) , who forms a coterie of related patrons , the second set ( in addition to the Herbert clan ) of " privileged patrons " whom Massinger sought.18 He dedicates The Renegado ( 1630 ) to ...
David M. Bergeron. Massinger's Duke of Milan ( 1623 ) , who forms a coterie of related patrons , the second set ( in addition to the Herbert clan ) of " privileged patrons " whom Massinger sought.18 He dedicates The Renegado ( 1630 ) to ...
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... Massinger have clarified ( 1 : xxxvi ) . Several plays in Massinger's last decade of writing focus on persons actually known to him ( often of the lesser gentry ) ; therefore , the dedications seem more personal and reflect actual ...
... Massinger have clarified ( 1 : xxxvi ) . Several plays in Massinger's last decade of writing focus on persons actually known to him ( often of the lesser gentry ) ; therefore , the dedications seem more personal and reflect actual ...
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... Massinger begins curiously : " That the Patronage of trifles , in this kinde , hath long since rendred Dedications , and Inscriptions obsolete , and out of fashion , I perfectly understand " ( 2 : 196 ) . But Massinger is perfectly ...
... Massinger begins curiously : " That the Patronage of trifles , in this kinde , hath long since rendred Dedications , and Inscriptions obsolete , and out of fashion , I perfectly understand " ( 2 : 196 ) . But Massinger is perfectly ...
Contents
The Printing House and Textual Patronage | 23 |
Pageants Masques and Prefaces | 49 |
Women as Patrons of Drama | 73 |
Copyright | |
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