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Shakespeare's Stationers : Studies in Cultural Bibliography / ed. by Marta Straznicky.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Material TextsPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) : 9 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812244540
  • 9780812207385
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.5 23
LOC classification:
  • Z8811 .S56 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: What Is a Stationer? -- Chapter 1. The Stationers' Shakespeare -- Chapter 2. Thomas Creede, William Barley, and the Venture of Printing Plays -- Chapter 3. Wise Ventures: Shakespeare and Thomas Playfere at the Sign of the Angel -- Chapter 4. "Vnder the Handes of . . .": Zachariah Pasfield and the Licensing of Playbooks -- Chapter 5. Nicholas Ling's Republican Hamlet (1603) -- Chapter 6. Shakespeare the Stationer -- Chapter 7. Edward Blount, the Herberts, and the First Folio -- Chapter 8. John Norton and the Politics of Shakespeare's History Plays in Caroline England -- Chapter 9. Shakespeare's Flop: John Waterson and The Two Noble Kinsmen -- Appendix A: Shakespearean Publications, 1591-1640 -- Appendix B: Selected Stationer Profiles -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index
Summary: Recent studies in early modern cultural bibliography have put forth a radically new Shakespeare-a man of keen literary ambition who wrote for page as well as stage. His work thus comes to be viewed as textual property and a material object not only seen theatrically but also bought, read, collected, annotated, copied, and otherwise passed through human hands. This Shakespeare was invented in large part by the stationers-publishers, printers, and booksellers-who produced and distributed his texts in the form of books. Yet Shakespeare's stationers have not received sustained critical attention.Edited by Marta Straznicky, Shakespeare's Stationers: Studies in Cultural Bibliography shifts Shakespearean textual scholarship toward a new focus on the earliest publishers and booksellers of Shakespeare's texts. This seminal collection is the first to explore the multiple and intersecting forms of agency exercised by Shakespeare's stationers in the design, production, marketing, and dissemination of his printed works. Nine critical studies examine the ways in which commerce intersected with culture and how individual stationers engaged in a range of cultural functions and political movements through their business practices. Two appendices, cataloguing the imprints of Shakespeare's texts to 1640 and providing forty additional stationer profiles, extend the volume's reach well beyond the case studies, offering a foundation for further research.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: What Is a Stationer? -- Chapter 1. The Stationers' Shakespeare -- Chapter 2. Thomas Creede, William Barley, and the Venture of Printing Plays -- Chapter 3. Wise Ventures: Shakespeare and Thomas Playfere at the Sign of the Angel -- Chapter 4. "Vnder the Handes of . . .": Zachariah Pasfield and the Licensing of Playbooks -- Chapter 5. Nicholas Ling's Republican Hamlet (1603) -- Chapter 6. Shakespeare the Stationer -- Chapter 7. Edward Blount, the Herberts, and the First Folio -- Chapter 8. John Norton and the Politics of Shakespeare's History Plays in Caroline England -- Chapter 9. Shakespeare's Flop: John Waterson and The Two Noble Kinsmen -- Appendix A: Shakespearean Publications, 1591-1640 -- Appendix B: Selected Stationer Profiles -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index

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Recent studies in early modern cultural bibliography have put forth a radically new Shakespeare-a man of keen literary ambition who wrote for page as well as stage. His work thus comes to be viewed as textual property and a material object not only seen theatrically but also bought, read, collected, annotated, copied, and otherwise passed through human hands. This Shakespeare was invented in large part by the stationers-publishers, printers, and booksellers-who produced and distributed his texts in the form of books. Yet Shakespeare's stationers have not received sustained critical attention.Edited by Marta Straznicky, Shakespeare's Stationers: Studies in Cultural Bibliography shifts Shakespearean textual scholarship toward a new focus on the earliest publishers and booksellers of Shakespeare's texts. This seminal collection is the first to explore the multiple and intersecting forms of agency exercised by Shakespeare's stationers in the design, production, marketing, and dissemination of his printed works. Nine critical studies examine the ways in which commerce intersected with culture and how individual stationers engaged in a range of cultural functions and political movements through their business practices. Two appendices, cataloguing the imprints of Shakespeare's texts to 1640 and providing forty additional stationer profiles, extend the volume's reach well beyond the case studies, offering a foundation for further research.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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