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Selling Shakespeare : biography, bibliography, and the book trade / Adam G. Hooks.
Van Pelt Library Z8811.R2894b . H66 2016
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) Z8811.R2894b . H66 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hooks, Adam G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Bibliography.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Book industries and trade.
- History.
- Relations with printers.
- England.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Biography.
- Dramatists, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography--History and criticism.
- Dramatists, English.
- Dramatists, English--Early modern--Biography.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Relations with printers.
- Book industries and trade--England--History--16th century.
- Book industries and trade--England--History--17th century.
- Bibliography.
- Biography.
- Dramatists, English--Biography.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 207 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Selling Shakespeare tells a story of Shakespeare's life and career in print, a story centered on the people who created, bought, and sold books in the early modern period. The interests and investments of publishers and booksellers have defined our ideas of what is 'Shakespearean', and attending to their interests demonstrates how one version of Shakespearean authorship surpassed the rest. In this book, Adam G. Hooks identifies and examines four pivotal episodes in Shakespeare's life in print: the debut of his narrative poems, the appearance of a series of best-selling plays, the publication of collected editions of his works, and the cataloguing of those works. Hooks also offers a new kind of biographical investigation and historicist criticism, one based not on external life documents, nor on the texts of Shakespeare's works, but on the books that were printed, published, sold, circulated, collected, and catalogued under his name"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: A life in print : toward a Shakespearean bio-bibliography
- Shakespeare's poems and Shakespeare's printer : Richard Field and the narratives of Shakespearean authorship
- Sweet and swaggering : Shakespeare's plays, Playfere's sermons, and their publisher Andrew Wise
- 'All in one volume' : Shakespeare's quartos, the First Folio, and their printer William Jaggard
- Making plays : booksellers and the bio-bibliography of Shakespeare.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107138070
- 1107138078
- OCLC:
- 921310704
- Online:
- Cover image
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