Selling Shakespeare - Biography, Bibliography, and the Book Trade

Adam G. Hooks offers a new history of Shakespeare's life in print and an innovative account of dramatic criticism and biography.

List of contents

Introduction - a life in print: toward a Shakespearean bio-bibliography; 1. Shakespeare's poems and Shakespeare's printer: Richard Field and the narratives of Shakespearean authorship; 2. Sweet and swaggering: Shakespeare's plays, Playfere's sermons, and their publisher Andrew Wise; 3. 'All in one volume': Shakespeare's quartos, the First Folio, and their printer William Jaggard; 4. Making plays: booksellers and the bio-bibliography of Shakespeare.

About the author

Adam G. Hooks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa, where his research and teaching focus on Shakespeare, early modern literature and culture, and the history of the book. He has several publications on Shakespeare, the book trade, and the First Folio, and has received awards from the Shakespeare Association of America, the Bibliographical Society of America, and Rare Book School. He runs the book history website Anchora at www.adamghooks.net.

Product details

• Authors: Adam G. Hooks, Adam G. (University of Iowa) Hooks, Hooks Adam G.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.2018
• EAN: 9781316505076
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50507-6
• No. of pages: 217
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Press & journalism, c 1500 onwards to present day, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literature: history and criticism, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Publishing industry and journalism, Publishing industry & book trade, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600