Introduction
Part 1: Playing and the Court
Shakespeare, Patronage, and the Court
Shakespeare, Patronage and the Court
Line Lengths, Playing Times, and Ben Jonson
The Revision of Early Modern Play Texts
Part 2: Shakespeare's Multiple Texts
The Famous Victories of Shakespeare's Henry V
2 & 3 Henry VI -- A True Contention
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet and Succession
A Jacobean Merry Wives?
Single Sequence Additions
Jacobean Shakespeare
Conclusions
Bibliography
Richard Dutton was educated at King's College, Cambridge and the
University of Nottingham. He taught for many years at Lancaster
University. Since 2003 he has been Humanities Distinguished
Professor of English at The Ohio State University, where he served
as chair of the English department from 2009 to 2013. He has
published numerous monographs, scholarly editions, and edited
collections relating to the early modern period, mostly focusing on
the censorship of the
drama, the authors Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and theatre history.
Dutton has written a challenging, important book which should make
us take the bad quartos more seriously on their own terms, resist
uncritical acceptance of conflated texts and re-examine
Shakespeares methods of composition.
*Paul Dean, The Journal*
draws together research and ideas from a long and distinguished
career ... invite[s] us to think in new ways
*Helen Hackett, Times Literary Supplement*
If the detail is sometimes overwhelming, his chapters are
well-organized, and a helpful "conclusions" section summarizes this
precise, provocative argument. Following Dutton, it seems that we
are actually most likely to bump into a courtier at a Shakespeare
play.
*Emma Smith, Theatre Journal*
Shakespeare, Court Dramatist is the work f a master scholar and
merits careful attention from anyone interested in the history of
English Renaissance drama.
*Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900*
It is a book that everyone interested in Shakespeares texts will
want to read.
*William R. Streitberger, Review of English Studies*
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