Selling Shakespeare : Biography, Bibliography, and the Book Trade /

Selling Shakespeare tells a story of Shakespeare's life and career in print, a story centered on the people who created, bought, and sold books in the early modern period. The interests and investments of publishers and booksellers have defined our ideas of what is 'Shakespearean', an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hooks, Adam G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Bibliography.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Relations with printers.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
1500-1699
Dramatists, English > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Biography > History and criticism.
Book industries and trade > England > History > 16th century.
Book industries and trade > England > History > 17th century.
Livres > Industrie > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Livres > Industrie > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Book industries and trade
Dramatists, English > Early modern > Biography
Relations with printers
England
bibliographies.
collective biographies.
Biographies
Bibliographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Bibliographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: A life in print: toward a Shakespearean bio-bibliography; Chapter 1 Shakespeare's poems and Shakespeare's printer: Richard Field and the narratives of Shakespearean authorship; Chapter 2 Sweet and swaggering: Shakespeare's plays, Playfere's sermons, and the publisher Andrew Wise; Chapter 3 "all in one volume": Shakespeare's quartos, the First Folio, and the printer William Jaggard; Chapter 4 Making plays: Booksellers and the bio-bibliography of Shakespeare.

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