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COMMENDATORY VERSE AND AUTHORSHIP IN THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
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| By: |
Wayne Chandler, Gary Taylor |
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Hardback |
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£89.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
077346770X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780773467705 |
| Publisher: |
THE EDWIN MELLEN PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
31 March, 2003 |
| Series: |
Mellen Studies in Literature: Elizabethan & Renaissance Studies v. 129 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
Commendatory verse (poetry written by one author to commend the work of another) presents a window on English Renaissance literary culture. This study looks at the paratextual functions of commendatory poetry and the relationship of these functions to Renaissance conceptions of authorship. |
| Synopsis: |
Commendatory verse - poetry written by one author specifically to commend the work of another - presents a window on English Renaissance literary culture. This study examines particularly the paratextual functions of commendatory poetry and the relationship of those functions to contemporary Renaissance conceptions of authorship. Chapters examine the poem as an advertisement for the book to which it is attached and its role in book-selling, the state of patronage, the way the writers promoted themselves through the poems they wrote for others (with Ben Jonson serving as an example), the poems' influence on reader response, with a discussion of William Shakespeare, examining the interplay of personal agency and cultural work in the liminary material of "Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories and Tragedies". One appendix identifies the original material of all commendatory poems written by Ben Jonson, and another identifies all printed drama before 1641 accompanied by commendatory verse. |
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bibliography, index |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Edwin Mellen Press Ltd |
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Non-returnable |
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