Douglas A. Brooks, Brooks Douglas a.

From Playhouse to Printing House

Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England
Herausgeber: Orgel, Stephen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how Renaissance dramatists made the difficult transition from playwrights to published authors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9780521771177
• ISBN-10: 052177117X
• Artikelnr.: 22453698

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue 'Thou grewst to govern the whole Stage alone': dramas of authorship in early modern England
1. 'A toy brought to the Presse': marketing printed drama in early modern London
2. 'So disfigured with scrapings & blotting out': Sir John Oldcastle and the construction of Shakespeare's authorship
3. 'If he be at his book, disturb him not': the two Jonson folios of 1616
4. 'What strange Production is at last displaid': dramatic authorship and the dilemma of collaboration
5. 'So wronged in beeing publisht': Thomas Heywood and the discourse of perilous publication
Epilogue 'Why not Malevole in folio with vs': the after-birth of the author
Notes
Bibliography
Index.