Author: Henry Stanley BennettPublisher:
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Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages :
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English Books & Readers: 1603 to 1640, the reigns of James I and Charles I
Author: Henry Stanley BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages :
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English Books and Readers 1603-1640
Author: H. S. BennettPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521379908
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This third volume of English Books and Readers, first published in 1970, carries the story of the English book trade down to the eve of the Civil War. The author gives an account of the total output of books and pamphlets in the period, irrespective of their qualities as literature.
English Books & Readers, 1603 to 1640
Author: Henry Stanley BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
English Books and Readers 1603 to 1640. Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade in the Reigns of James I and Charles I. London
Author: H. S. BennettEnglish Books and Readers 1603 to 1640
Author: H. S. BennettPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
English Books and Readers 1603-1640
Author: H. S. BennettPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521379908
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This third volume of English Books and Readers, first published in 1970, carries the story of the English book trade down to the eve of the Civil War. The author gives an account of the total output of books and pamphlets in the period, irrespective of their qualities as literature.
English Books & Readers: 1603 to 1640
Author: Henry Stanley BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
1603 to 1640
Author: Experiencing Drama in the English Renaissance
Author: Akihiro YamadaPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351764462
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance. Around 1500 an absolute majority of population was illiterate. Henry VIII’s religious reformation changed this cultural structure of society. ‘The Act for the Advancement of True Religion’ of 1543, which prohibited the people belonging to the lower classes of society as well as women from reading the Bible, rather suggests that there already existed a number of these folks actively engaged in reading. The Act did not ban the works of Chaucer and Gower and stories of men’s lives – good reading for them. The successive sovereigns’ educational policies also contributed to rising literacy. This trend was speeded up by London’s growing population which invited the rise of commercial playhouses since 1567. Every citizen saw on average about seven performances every year: that is, about three per cent of London’s population saw a performance a day. From 1586 onwards merchants’ appearance in best-seller literature began to increase while stage representation of reading/writing scenes also increased and stimulated audiences towards reading. This was spurred by standardisation of the printing format of playbooks in the early 1580s and play-minded readers went to playbooks, eventually to create a class of playbook readers. Late in the 1590s, at last, playbooks matched with prose writings in ratio to all publications. Parts I and II of this book discuss these topics in numerical terms as much as possible and Part III discusses some monumental characteristics of contemporary readers of Chapman, Ford, Marston and Shakespeare.
The Battle of the Frogs and Fairford's Flies
Author: NA NAPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137100524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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