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Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare - Stationers Shaping a Genre (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare - Stationers Shaping a Genre (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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.
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