Shakespeare and the Book Trade

Informationen zum Autor Lukas Erne is Professor of English at the University of Geneva. He holds degrees from the Universities of Lausanne, Oxford and Geneva. He has taught at the University of Neuchâtel and, as Visiting Professor, at Yale University, Connecticut. He has been the Fowler Hamilton Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, and the recipient of research fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Huntington Library. He is the author of Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators (2008), Beyond 'The Spanish Tragedy': A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (2001) and Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (2003), which was named 'Book of the Year' in The Times Literary Supplement. He is the editor, with Guillemette Bolens, of Medieval and Early Modern Authorship (2011), of The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet (2007) and, with M. J. Kidnie, of Textual Performance: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama (2004). He gave the Lyell Lectures, on 'Shakespeare and the Book Trade', at the University of Oxford in spring 2012. Klappentext This study establishes the remarkable presence of Shakespeare's plays and poems in the early modern English book trade. Zusammenfassung Shakespeare and the Book Trade follows on from Lukas Erne's groundbreaking Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist to examine the publication! constitution! dissemination and reception of Shakespeare's printed plays and poems in his own time and to argue that their popularity in the book trade has been greatly underestimated. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Quantifying Shakespeare's presence in print; 2. Shakespeare, publication and authorial misattribution; 3. The bibliographic and paratextual makeup of Shakespeare's Quarto playbooks; 4. Shakespeare's publishers; 5. The reception of printed Shakespeare; Appendix A. The publication of playbooks by Shakespeare and his contemporaries to 1660; Appendix B. Printed playbooks of professional plays, including reprints, 1583-1622; Appendix C. Shakespeare's publishers, 1593-1622....

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• Authors: Lukas Erne, Lukas (Universite De Geneve) Erne, Erne Lukas, Erne Lukas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2013
• EAN: 9780521765664
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76566-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; England, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean