“Masters of their proper Goods”: Company Politics and Folio Publication, 1616-1652
This article draws attention to the ways in which dramatic folios published in England between 1616 and 1652 exploit not only the figure of the author but also the authority of the playing company. Arguing that the history of the dramatic folio is entwined with that of the King’s Men, the company in...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare
2025
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | This article draws attention to the ways in which dramatic folios published in England between 1616 and 1652 exploit not only the figure of the author but also the authority of the playing company. Arguing that the history of the dramatic folio is entwined with that of the King’s Men, the company in which Shakespeare himself had been a sharer, it examines in detail the paratextual materials of the first Jonson folio of 1616, the first Shakespeare folio of 1623, the “Beaumont and Fletcher” folio of 1647 and the single-play folio of Fletcher’s The Wild Goose Chase, issued in 1652 as a supplement to the 1647 folio. It identifies in these volumes a complex interaction between stage and page, one in which competing models of authority combine to support the development of the dramatic folio and promote the interests of the playing company. |
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