Book chapter
First Folios
A Companion to British Literature, pp.280-294
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
02/03/2014
DOI: 10.1002/9781118827338.ch45
Abstract
Shakespeare and Jonson are now pillars of the early modern literary canon, their reputations resting on the folio volumes of their collected works. The two books are widely considered to be landmarks in literary history. Jonson was the first author to incorporate plays written for the professional theater among his Workes (1616) – a title that makes an explicit and classically inflected claim to literary status. The Shakespeare first folio (1623) was the first significant collection to consist exclusively of plays written for the theater. Taken together, the two folios are credited with elevating the cultural status of the drama and providing a powerful definition of literary authorship. Attending to the intersecting textual networks and mutually constitutive systems of value in which these books participated allows for a more precise explanation for the prominent place in literary history held by Jonson and Shakespeare – and their first folios.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- First Folios
- Creators
- Adam G Hooks
- Contributors
- Robert DeMaria (Editor)Heesok Chang (Editor)Samantha Zacher (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- A Companion to British Literature, pp.280-294
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; Oxford, UK
- DOI
- 10.1002/9781118827338.ch45
- Number of pages
- 15
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/03/2014
- Academic Unit
- English; Interdisciplinary Studies Program
- Record Identifier
- 9984397928002771
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