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

Folger bibliographic ID: 353217
Folger call number: PR3071 .C36 2017
Folger holdings ID: 501658

"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 inthe 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"--

General notes

"Thanks are also due to the original contributors to the 'Shakespeare and the Book Trade 1640-1737' seminar at the Shakespeare Association of America's annual meeting in St Louis in 2014"--Page x Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-266) and index

Contents

1. Emma Depledge and Peter Kirwan -- Introduction

Extended title: Canonising Shakespeare : stationers and the book trade, 1640-1740 / edited by Emma Depledge and Peter Kirwan
Alternate titles: Canonizing Shakespeare

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Book industries and trade Literature publishing Drama Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) England

subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
editor: Depledge, Emma
editor: Kirwan, Peter
associated with: Shakespeare Association of America. Annual Meeting