{"product_id":"from-playhouse-to-printing-house-drama-and-authorship-in-early-modern-england-paperback-9780521034869","title":"From Playhouse to Printing House; Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521034869","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrom Playhouse to Printing House\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDrama and Authorship in Early Modern England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines how Renaissance dramatists made the difficult transition from playwrights to published authors.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDouglas A. Brooks (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521034869, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 December 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e316 pages, 23 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.481 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This densely-woven study offers a significant new interpretation of the relationship of dramatic authorship to the processes by which plays got into print in the Early Modern period. This is an important, well written, and deeply learned book.' David Bevington\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis study examines how Shakespeare and his contemporaries made the difficult transition from writing plays for the theatre to publishing them as literary works. Tracing the path from playhouse to printing house, Douglas Brooks analyses how and why certain popular plays found their way into print while many others failed to do so and looks at the role played by the Renaissance book trade in shaping literary reputations. Incorporating many finely observed typographical illustrations, this book focuses on plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster and Beaumont and Fletcher as well as reviewing the complicated publication history of Thomas Heywood's work. Brooks uncovers the continually shifting relationship between theatre and publisher and defines the way in which the concept of authorship changed. His book represents an important contribution to the refiguration of two histories: English Renaissance drama and the early modern book.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Prologue 'Thou grewst to govern the whole Stage alone': dramas of authorship in early modern England\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'A toy brought to the Presse': marketing printed drama in early modern London\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'So disfigured with scrapings \u0026amp; blotting out': Sir John Oldcastle and the construction of Shakespeare's authorship\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'If he be at his book, disturb him not': the two Jonson folios of 1616\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'What strange Production is at last displaid': dramatic authorship and the dilemma of collaboration\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'So wronged in beeing publisht': Thomas Heywood and the discourse of perilous publication\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 'Why not Malevole in folio with vs': the after-birth of the author\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006233923864,"sku":"9780521034869","price":22.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521034869i_bbd44516-aed4-4ef9-807c-f08ecb74307d.jpg?v=1694968277","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/from-playhouse-to-printing-house-drama-and-authorship-in-early-modern-england-paperback-9780521034869","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}