"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:
16. Afterword / Patrick Cheney. Part I. Selling Shakespeare -- 2. Shakespeare for sale, 1640-1740 / Emma Depledge -- 3. Royalist Shakespeare : publishers, politics and the appropriation of The Rape of Lucrece (1655) / Adam G. Hooks -- 4. Henry Herringman, Richard Bentley and Shakespeare's Fourth Folio (1685) / Francis X. Connor -- 5. Shakespeare without rules : the fifth Shakespeare folio and market demand in the early 1700s / Lara Hansen and Eric Rasmussen -- 6. The 1734-5 price wars, Antony and Cleopatra and the theatrical imagination / Anthony Brano -- Part II. Consolidating the Shakespeare Canon -- 7. Consolidating the Shakespeare canon, 1640-1740 / Peter Kirwan -- 8. John Benson's 1640 poems and its literary precedents / Faith Acker -- 9. Cupids Cabinet Unlock't (1662), ostensibly 'by W. Shakespeare', in fact partly by John Milton / Lukas Erne -- 10. Discovering Shakespeare's personal style : editing and connoisseurship in the eighteenth century / Edmund G. C. King -- Part III. Editing Shakespeare -- 11. Editing Shakespeare, 1640-1740 / Emma Depledge and Peter Kirwan -- 12. Dramatic typography and the restoration quartos of Hamlet / Claire M. L. Bourne -- 13. The 1709/11 editions of Shakespeare's poems / Paul D. Cannan -- 14. Alexander Pope, interventionist editing and The Taming of the Shrew (1725) / Jonathan H. Holmes -- 15. Editorial annotations in Shakespeare editions after 1733 // Adam Rounce -- 16. Afterword / Patrick Cheney.
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 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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