This study examines how Shakespeare and his contemporaries made the
difficult transition from writing plays for the theatre to
publishing them as literary works. Tracing the path from playhouse
to printing house, Douglas Brooks analyses how and why certain
popular plays found their way into print while many others failed
to do so and looks at the role played by the Renaissance book trade
in shaping literary reputations. Incorporating many finely observed
typographical illustrations, this book focuses on plays by
Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster and Beaumont and Fletcher as well as
reviewing the complicated publication history of Thomas Heywood's
work. Brooks uncovers the continually shifting relationship between
theatre and publisher and defines the way in which the concept of
authorship changed. His book represents an important contribution
to the refiguration of two histories: English Renaissance drama and
the early modern book.
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