257 Pages
by
Routledge
257 Pages
by
Routledge
257 Pages
by
Routledge
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Through an investigation of the dedications and addresses from various printed plays of the English Renaissance, the author recuperates the richness of these prefaces and connects them to the practice of patronage. The prefatory matter discussed ranges from the printer John Day's address to readers (the first of its kind) in the 1570 edition of Gorboduc to Richard Brome's dedication to William... Read more
Contents: Introduction: A preface about prefaces; The printing house and textual patronage; 'Complements of state': pageants, masques, and prefaces; Women as patrons of drama; 'It cannot avoid publishing': Marston and colleagues; 'I make thee my patron': Ben Jonson; The King's men's King's men: Shakespeare and folio patronage; Thomas Heywood's apology for readers (1608-38); 'Your noble construction': textual patronage in the 1630s; Epilogue: L'envoi; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
David M. Bergeron is Professor of English at Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas.
