Shakespeare and the Book Trade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare and the Book Trade write by Lukas Erne. This book was released on 2013-04-25. Shakespeare and the Book Trade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shakespeare and the Book Trade follows on from Lukas Erne's groundbreaking Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist to examine the publication, constitution, dissemination and reception of Shakespeare's printed plays and poems in his own time and to argue that their popularity in the book trade has been greatly underestimated. Erne uses evidence from Shakespeare's publishers and the printed works to show that in the final years of the sixteenth century and the early part of the seventeenth century, 'Shakespeare' became a name from which money could be made, a book trade commodity in which publishers had significant investments and an author who was bought, read, excerpted and collected on a surprising scale. Erne argues that Shakespeare, far from indifferent to his popularity in print, was an interested and complicit witness to his rise as a print-published author. Thanks to the book trade, Shakespeare's authorial ambition started to become bibliographic reality during his lifetime.
Selling Shakespeare
Selling Shakespeare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selling Shakespeare write by Adam G. Hooks. This book was released on 2016-02-15. Selling Shakespeare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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', and attending to their interests demonstrates how one version of Shakespearean authorship surpassed the rest. In this book, Adam G. Hooks identifies and examines four pivotal episodes in Shakespeare's life in print: the debut of his narrative poems, the appearance of a series of best-selling plays, the publication of collected editions of his works, and the cataloguing of those works. Hooks also offers a new kind of biographical investigation and historicist criticism, one based not on external life documents, nor on the texts of Shakespeare's works, but on the books that were printed, published, sold, circulated, collected, and catalogued under his name.
Shakespeare and the Book
Shakespeare and the Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare and the Book write by David Scott Kastan. This book was released on 2001-09-20. Shakespeare and the Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts into books.
Shakespeare and the Book Trade
Shakespeare and the Book Trade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare and the Book Trade write by Lukas Erne. This book was released on 2013-04-25. Shakespeare and the Book Trade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study establishes the remarkable presence of Shakespeare's plays and poems in the early modern English book trade.
Historical Networks in the Book Trade
Historical Networks in the Book Trade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Networks in the Book Trade write by Catherine Feely. This book was released on 2016-10-14. Historical Networks in the Book Trade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book trade historically tended to operate in a spirit of co-operation as well as competition. Networks between printers, publishers, booksellers and related trades existed at local, regional, national and international levels and were a vital part of the business of books for several centuries. This collection of essays examines many aspects of the history of book-trade networks, in response to the recent ‘spatial turn’ in history and other disciplines. Contributors come from various backgrounds including history, sociology, business studies and English literature. The essays in Part One introduce the relevance to book-trade history of network theory and techniques, while Part Two is a series of case studies ranging chronologically from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Topics include the movement of early medieval manuscript books, the publication of Shakespeare, the distribution of seventeenth-century political pamphlets in Utrecht and Exeter, book-trade networks before 1750 in the English East Midlands, the itinerant book trade in northern France in the late eighteenth century, how an Australian newspaper helped to create the Scottish public sphere, the networks of the Belgian publisher Murquardt, and transatlantic radical book-trade networks in the early twentieth century.
