Amy Lidster (University of Oxford)

Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For scholars and students of Shakespeare Studies, Book History and Early Modern Drama, this book overturns how we understand the relationships between history plays on the stage and in print, between history plays and the period's historical culture and politics, and between publication and the construction of genre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781316517253
• ISBN-10: 131651725X
• Artikelnr.: 62481077

Autorenporträt

Amy Lidster is a Departmental Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Jesus College, University of Oxford. She is co-editor of Shakespeare at War: A Material History (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and her work has appeared widely in books and journals, including Old St Paul's and Culture (2021), Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Studies, and Renaissance Drama.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'True' Histories: Thomas Creede's looking glasses and the print identity
of Queen Elizabeth's men; 2. Authorizing histories: Andrew Wise and
Shakespeare's English history plays; 3. United histories: Nathaniel Butter
and his newsworthy playbooks; 4. Collecting histories: The Jaggard-Pavier
Collection (1619) and Shakespeare's First Folio (1623).