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Article: From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England.
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England. By DOUGLAS A. BROOKS. (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xviii + 296 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $59.95.
Some thirty years after Michel Foucault taught us that authors are not born but made, Douglas Brooks has set himself the fascinating task of exploring what brought about the making of Shakespeare and contemporary dramatic authors. Investigating the territory leading from the playhouse to the printing house, Brooks convincingly argues that 'the authorship of drama in the period was shaped by ...