Selling Shakespeare : biography, bibliography, and the book trade /
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,' an...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- A life in print : toward a Shakespearean bio-bibliography
- Shakespeare's poems and Shakespeare's printer : Richard Field and the narratives of Shakespearean authorship
- Sweet and swaggering : Shakespeare's plays, Playfere's sermons, and their publisher Andrew Wise
- 'All in one volume' : Shakespeare's quartos, the First Folio, and their printer William Jaggard
- Making plays : booksellers and the bio-bibliography of Shakespeare.