| Description |
1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Selling Shakespeare -- Chapter 2 Shakespeare for Sale, 1640â#x80;#x93;1740 -- Chapter 3 Royalist Shakespeare: Publishers, Politics and the Appropriation of The Rape of Lucrece (1655) -- Chapter 4 Henry Herringman, Richard Bentley and Shakespeareâ#x80;#x99;s Fourth Folio (1685) -- Chapter 5 Shakespeare Without Rules: The Fifth Shakespeare Folio and Market Demand in the Early 1700s |
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Chapter 6 The 1734â#x80;#x93;5 Price Wars, Antony and Cleopatra and the Theatrical ImaginationPart II Consolidating the Shakespeare Canon -- Chapter 7 Consolidating the Shakespeare Canon, 1640â#x80;#x93;1740 -- Chapter 8 John Bensonâ#x80;#x99;s 1640 Poems and Its Literary Precedents -- 9 Cupids Cabinet Unlockâ#x80;#x99;t (1662), Ostensibly â#x80;#x98;By W. Shakespeareâ#x80;#x99;, in Fact Partly by John Milton -- Chapter 10 Discovering Shakespeareâ#x80;#x99;s Personal Style: Editing and Connoisseurship in the Eighteenth Century -- Part III Editing Shakespeare -- Chapter 11 Editing Shakespeare, 1640â#x80;#x93;1740 |
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Chapter 12 Dramatic Typography and the Restoration Quartos of HamletChapter 13 The 1709/11 Editions of Shakespeareâ#x80;#x99;s Poems -- Chapter 14 Alexander Pope, Interventionist Editing and The Taming of the Shrew (1725) -- Chapter 15 Editorial Annotations in Shakespeare Editions After 1733 -- Chapter 16 Afterword -- Appendix One List of Shakespeare Editions and Shakespeare-Related Publications (1640â#x80;#x93;1740) Cited in This Collection -- Appendix Two Chronological List of Other Shakespeare Publications Before 1900 Cited in This Volume -- Works Cited |
| Summary |
This book demonstrates how the book trade of 1640-1740 canonised Shakespeare by selling, editing and promoting his plays and poems |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism, Textual.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Literature publishing -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Literature publishing -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Drama -- Editing.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Book industries and trade
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Drama -- Editing
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Literature publishing
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Depledge, Emma, editor.
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Kirwan, Peter, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781108349345 |
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110834934X |
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9781316650752 |
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1316650758 |
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9781316999219 |
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1108576397 |
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9781108576390 |
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1108664113 |
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9781108664110 |
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1108675174 |
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9781108675178 |
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1316999211 |
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