Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-316-51725-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 588 g

During the early modern period, the publication process decisively shaped the history play and its reception. Bringing together the methodologies of genre criticism and book history, this study argues that stationers have – through acts of selection and presentation – constructed some remarkably influential expectations and ideas surrounding genre. Amy Lidster boldly challenges the uncritical use of Shakespeare's Folio as a touchstone for the history play, exposing the harmful ways in which this has solidified its parameters as a genre exclusively interested in the lives of English kings. Reframing the Folio as a single example of participation in genre-making, this book illuminates the exciting and diverse range of historical pasts that were available to readers and audiences in the early modern period. Lidster invites us to reappraise the connection between plays on stage and in print, and to reposition playbooks within the historical culture and geopolitics of the book trade.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lidster, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. 'True' Histories: Thomas Creede's looking glasses and the print identity of Queen Elizabeth's men; 2. Authorizing histories: Andrew Wise and Shakespeare's English history plays; 3. United histories: Nathaniel Butter and his newsworthy playbooks; 4. Collecting histories: The Jaggard-Pavier Collection (1619) and Shakespeare's First Folio (1623).

Über Autor(innen)

Lidster, Amy
Amy Lidster is a Departmental Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Jesus College, University of Oxford. She is co-editor of Shakespeare at War: A Material History (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and her work has appeared widely in books and journals, including Old St Paul's and Culture (2021), Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Studies, and Renaissance Drama.