Canonising Shakespeare : stationers and the book trade, 1640-1740

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Canonising Shakespeare : stationers and the book trade, 1640-1740

Title remainder

stationers and the book trade, 1640-1740

Statement of responsibility

edited by Emma Depledge and Peter Kirwan

Title variation

Canonizing Shakespeare

Contributor

• Depledge, Emma
• Shakespeare Association of America, Annual Meeting | Shakespeare and the Book Trade 1640-1737, 2014 :
• Kirwan, Peter

Editor

• Depledge, Emma
• Kirwan, Peter

Subject

• 1600-1799
• Book industries and trade
• Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 18th century
• Buchhandel
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Drama -- Editing
• Drama -- Editing
• Edition
• England
• Großbritannien
• History
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Literature publishing
• Literature publishing -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Literature publishing -- England -- History -- 18th century
• Rezeption
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism, Textual
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Canonising Shakespeare offers the first comprehensive reassessment of Shakespeare's afterlife as a print phenomenon, demonstrating the crucial role that the book trade played in his rise to cultural pre-eminence. The period 1640-1740 was the period in the time in which Shakespeare's canon was determined, in which the poems resumed their place alongside the plays in print, and in which artisans and named editors crafted a new, contemporary Shakespeare for Restoration and eighteenth-century consumers. A team of international contributors highlight the impact of individual booksellers, printers, publishers and editors on the Shakespearean text, the books in which it was presented, and the ways in which it was promoted. From radical adaptations of the Sonnets to new characters in plays, and from elegant subscription volumes to cheap editions churned out by feuding publishers, this period was marked by eclecticism, contradiction and innovation as stationers looked to the past and the future to create a Shakespeare for their own times"--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

PUL

Dewey number

822.3/3

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR3071

LC item number

.C36 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography