Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642
Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642

Author: Thomas L. Berger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-24

Total Pages: 2080

ISBN-13: 1139991620

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The paratexts in early modern English playbooks – the materials to be found primarily in their preliminary pages and end matter – provide a rich source of information for scholars interested in Shakespeare, Renaissance drama and the history of the book. In addition, these materials offer valuable insights into the rise of dramatic authorship in print, early modern attitudes towards theatre, notorious literary wrangles and the production of drama both on the stage and in the printing house. This unique two-volume reference is the first to include all paratextual materials in early modern English playbooks, from the emergence of print drama to the closure of the theatres in 1642. The texts have been transcribed from their original versions and presented in old-spelling. With an introduction, user's guide, multiple indices and a finding list, the editors provide a comprehensive overview of seminal texts which have never before been fully transcribed, annotated and cross-referenced.

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies
The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies

Author: Lukas Erne

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-03-25

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1350080659

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The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and textual studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on all the major areas of current research, notably the Shakespeare manuscripts; the printed text and paratext in Shakespeare's early playbooks and poetry books; Shakespeare's place in the early modern book trade; Shakespeare's early readers, users, and collectors; the constitution and evolution of the Shakespeare canon from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century; Shakespeare's editors from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century; and the modern editorial reproduction of Shakespeare. The Handbook also devotes separate chapters to new directions and developments in research in the field, specifically in the areas of digital editing and of authorship attribution methodologies. In addition, the Companion contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A-Z of key terms and concepts, a guide to research methods and problems, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field, and a substantial annotated bibliography. The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a reference work aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and libraries, a guide to beginning or developing research in the field, an essential companion for all those interested in Shakespeare and textual studies.

Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642
Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642

Author: Thomas L. Berger

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 1040

ISBN-13: 9781107037977

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The paratexts in early modern English playbooks - the materials to be found primarily in their preliminary pages and end matter - provide a rich source of information for scholars interested in Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama and the History of the Book. In addition, these materials offer valuable insights into the rise of dramatic authorship in print, early modern attitudes towards theatre, notorious literary wrangles and the production of drama both on the stage and in the printing house. This unique two-volume reference is the first to include all paratextual materials in early modern English playbooks, from the emergence of print drama to the closure of the theatres in 1642. The texts have been transcribed from their original versions and presented in old-spelling. With an introduction, user's guide, multiple indices and a finding list, the editors provide a comprehensive overview of seminal texts which have never before been fully transcribed, annotated and cross-referenced.

Material Texts in Early Modern England
Material Texts in Early Modern England

Author: Adam Smyth

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1108421326

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This book combines book history and literary criticism to explore how early modern books were richer things than previously imagined.

Caroline Drama
Caroline Drama

Author: Julie Sanders

Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 0746308779

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This study of Caroline Drama concentrates on the public theatre playwriting of Philip Massinger, John Ford, James Shirley and Richard Brome between 1625 and 1642. Setting their plays within a social and political context, Julie Sanders reveals their concern with issues of community and hierarchy in the decades leading up to the English Civil Wars.

Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade
Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade

Author: Kirk Melnikoff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-10-18

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1108642063

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Presenting the first exploration of Christopher Marlowe's complex place in the canon, this collection reads Marlowe's work against an extensive backdrop of repertory, publication, transmission, and reception. Wide-ranging and thoughtful chapters consider Marlowe's deliberate engagements with the stage and print culture, the agents and methods involved in the transmission of his work, and his cultural reception in the light of repertory and print evidence. With contributions from major international scholars, the volume considers all of Marlowe's oeuvre, offering illuminating approaches to his extended animation in theatre and print, from the putative theatrical debut of Tamburlaine in 1587 to the most current editions of his work.

The Early Modern Medea
The Early Modern Medea

Author: K. Heavey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-02-24

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1137466243

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This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway over literary and cultural imagination in the period 1558-1688. It encompasses poetry, prose and drama, and translation, tragedy, comedy and political writing.

Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700
Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700

Author: Ingo Berensmeyer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-06-22

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 311069137X

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This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number of case studies and close readings, it presents the seventeenth century as a period of change that saw a fundamental shift towards a new cultural configuration: neoclassicism. This shift affected a wide array of social practices and institutions, from poetry to politics and from epistemology to civility.