Bergeron, David Moore.
Aldershot, England Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-241) and index.
• Introduction : a preface about prefaces — 1. printing house and textual patronage — 2. Complements of stat : pageants, masques, and prefaces — 3. Women as patrons of drama — 4. It cannot avoid publishing : Marston and colleagues — 5. I make thee my patron : Ben Jonson — 6. king’s men king’s men : Shakespeare and folio patronage — 7. Thomas Heywood’s apology for reader (1608-1638) — 8. Your noble construction : textual patronage in the 1630s — Epilogue : L’envoi.
• This book is the first to offer a systematic analysis of prefatory material in English dramatic texts, compelling literary scholars, cultural historians and historians of the book to take seriously the intersection of patronage, book production, and playwrights’ textual frames. As Bergeron persuasively argues, we cannot fully comprehend the practice of Renaissance patronage without understanding these documents from England’s richest theater period. –BOOK JACKET.

Subjects:

• English drama — Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 — History and criticism.
• Authors and patrons — England — History — 16th century.
• Authors and patrons — England — History — 17th century.
• Drama — Publishing — England — History — 17th century.
• Drama — Publishing — England — History — 16th century.
• English drama — 17th century — History and criticism.
• Literary patrons — Great Britain.
• Dedications.

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