{"product_id":"renaissance-drama-and-the-politics-of-publication-readings-in-the-english-book-trade-paperback-9780521039994","title":"Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication; Readings in the English Book Trade (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521039994","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRenaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReadings in the English Book Trade\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA study of the practices and politics of early modern publishers of plays.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eZachary Lesser (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521039994, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 August 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e260 pages, 19 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 1.6 cm, 0.395 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'Lesser's claim is compelling, and he usefully isolates and understudied but undoubtedly important aspect of the drama …' Literature and History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eShifting our focus from author to publisher and from first performance to first edition, Zachary Lesser offers a vantage point on the drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and their contemporaries. Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication reimagines the reception and meaning of plays by reading them through the eyes of their earliest publishers. Since success in the book trade required specialization, locating a play within its publisher's output allows us to see how the publisher read it and speculated that customers would read it. Their readings often differ radically from our own and so revise our views of the drama's engagement with early modern culture. By reading the 1633 Jew of Malta as a part of Nicholas Vavasour's Laudian specialty, for example, or the 1622 Othello in the context of Thomas Walkley's trade in parliamentary news, Lesser's study reveals the politics of these publications - for early modern readers and for us.\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 List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: from text to book\u003cbr\u003e 1. Speculation in the book trade\u003cbr\u003e 2. The cultural uses of typography in early modern England: Walter Burre's The Knight of the Burning Pestle\u003cbr\u003e 3. Marlowe's Jew goes to church: Nicholas Vavasour and the creation of Laudian drama\u003cbr\u003e 4. Insatiate, roaring devils and outlandish cups: Thomas Archer's dialogic publishing in the querelle des femmes\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Courtier's merchandise': Thomas Walkley and the paradoxes of domestic policy\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: readings then and now\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\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":46004792099096,"sku":"9780521039994","price":38.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521039994i_bcce1ef5-fbb3-4986-9c76-84caf6140cbf.jpg?v=1694968545","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/renaissance-drama-and-the-politics-of-publication-readings-in-the-english-book-trade-paperback-9780521039994","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}