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Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade »
Authors: Zachary Lesser
ISBN-13: 9780521842525, ISBN-10: 0521842522
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Zachary Lesser
Zachary Lesser teaches Shakespeare and early modern drama at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely on Renaissance drama and the history of the book in journals such as ELH, English Literary Renaissance, and Shakespeare Quarterly.
Book Synopsis
A study of the practices and politics of early modern publishers of plays.
Table of Contents
| Introduction : from text to book | 1 | |
| 1 | Speculation in the book trade | 26 |
| 2 | The cultural uses of typography in early modern England : Walter Burre's The knight of the burning pestle | 52 |
| 3 | Marlowe's Jew goes to church : Nicholas Vavasour and the creation of Laudian drama | 81 |
| 4 | Insatiate, roaring devils and outlandish cups : Thomas Archer's dialogic publishing in the querelle des femmes | 115 |
| 5 | "Courtier's merchandise" : Thomas Walkley and the paradoxes of domestic policy | 157 |
| Epilogue : readings then and now | 226 |
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