Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570-1640

ISBN-13: 9781138620780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 257 str.

David M. Bergeron

Opis

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 in the 1570 edition of Gorboduc to Richard Brome's dedication to William Seymour.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: A preface about prefaces; The printing house and textual patronage; 'Complements of state': pageants, masques, and prefaces; Women as patrons of drama; 'It cannot avoid publishing': Marston and colleagues; 'I make thee my patron': Ben Jonson; The King's men's King's men: Shakespeare and folio patronage; Thomas Heywood's apology for readers (1608-38); 'Your noble construction': textual patronage in the 1630s; Epilogue: L'envoi; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

David M. Bergeron is Professor of English at Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas.