The Publication of Plays in Eighteenth-Century England: Playwrights, Publishers and the Market
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A great deal of bibliographic and historical scholarship has been devoted to English drama up to 1660, but after the renaissance scholarship grows scant: late seventeenth-century plays have received little such attention, and eighteenth-century plays hardly any. This ground-breaking study by two internationally renowned scholars in theater history asks fundamental questions that have often been previously ignored--Who published plays? What was the cost of publication, the risk, and the potential profit? What did single plays cost, and what did play collections cost? How much market existed for used copies and at what prices? What did playwrights earn from publication, and how important was it to their income? What was the function of illustrations in published plays, and what can we learn from these illustrations? This study, a significantly expanded version of the Panizzi Lectures delivered by the authors at the British Library in 2011, will become a vital work in the field, laying the groundwork for a generation of future scholarship.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0712357734
ISBN13:9780712357739
Release Date:May 2015
Publisher:British Library
Length:416 Pages
Weight:2.23 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 5.9" x 10.9"
Related Subjects
Drama History Literary Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & FictionCustomer Reviews
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