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Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship

Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship

Loewenstein, Joseph
Orgel, Stephen
Barton, Anne

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Book 43

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521812178
ISBN13: 9780521812177
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 27 2002
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Writing before the institution of copyright, Renaissance authors were not recognized as owning their works. Yet, in an environment in which the written word could be variously marketed by printers or by acting companies, and in which authors could be held uncomfortably responsible for their writings, we can discover complex stirrings of possessiveness among such writers as Bacon, Heywood, Daniel, Shakespeare, Wither, and--most powerfully and interestingly--Ben Jonson. This book probes the literary and institutional history, the politics, and the psychology of possessive authorship.

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