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1 online resource (216 pages) |
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text file |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Feb 2016). |
| Summary |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Bibliography.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Bibliographies.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Biography.
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Biographies.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Relations with printers.
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Relations with printers. |
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Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Dramatists, English -- Early modern -- Biography. |
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Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Book industries and trade. |
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England. |
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History. |
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16th century |
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Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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17th century |
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1500-1699 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Bibliographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781316488836 (electronic book) |
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1316488837 (electronic book) |
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9781316498866 (electronic book) |
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1316498867 (electronic book) |
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9781107138070 (hardback) |
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9781316505076 (paperback) |
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