Shakespeare's stationers : studies in cultural bibliography / edited by Marta Straznicky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Straznicky, Marta.

Series:

Material texts.

Material texts

Material Texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Bibliography.

Shakespeare, William.

Drama--Publishing--England--History--16th century.

Drama.

Drama--Publishing--England--History--17th century.

Transmission of texts.

Canon (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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.

Contents:

What is a stationer? / Marta Straznicky

The stationers' Shakespeare / Alexandra Halasz

Thomas Creede, William Barley, and the venture of printing plays / Holger Schott Syme

Wise ventures : Shakespeare and Thomas Playfere at the Sign of the Angel / Adam G. Hooks

"Vnder the handes of ..." : Zachariah Pasfield and the licensing of playbooks / William Proctor Williams

Nicholas Ling's republican Hamlet (1603) / Kirk Melnikoff

Shakespeare the stationer / Douglas Bruster

Edward Blount, the Herberts, and the first folio / Sonia Massai

John Norton and the politics of Shakespeare's history plays in Caroline England / Alan B. Farmer

Shakespeare's flop : John Waterson and The two noble kinsmen / Zachary Lesser.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-361) and index.

ISBN:

9781283899062

128389906X

9780812207385

0812207386

OCLC:

822017762