在近代早期，出版过程决定性地塑造了历史剧及其接受。这项研究将体裁批评和书籍史的方法结合起来，认为文具师通过选择和展示的行为，构建了一些关于体裁的非常有影响力的期望和想法。艾米·利斯特（Amy Lidster）大胆挑战将莎士比亚的对开本作为这部历史剧的试金石的不加批判的使用，揭露了它作为一种只关注英国国王生活的体裁而巩固其特征的有害方式。这本书将对开本重新设计为一个参与体裁创作的单一例子，阐明了在现代早期读者和观众可以看到的令人兴奋和多样的历史。Lidster邀请我们重新评估舞台剧和印刷剧之间的联系，并在图书贸易的历史文化和地缘政治中重新定位剧本。
Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare: Stationers Shaping a Genre
During the early modern period, the publication process decisively shaped the history play and its reception. Bringing together the methodologies of genre criticism and book history, this study argues that stationers have – through acts of selection and presentation – constructed some remarkably influential expectations and ideas surrounding genre. Amy Lidster boldly challenges the uncritical use of Shakespeare’s Folio as a touchstone for the history play, exposing the harmful ways in which this has solidified its parameters as a genre exclusively interested in the lives of English kings. Reframing the Folio as a single example of participation in genre-making, this book illuminates the exciting and diverse range of historical pasts that were available to readers and audiences in the early modern period. Lidster invites us to reappraise the connection between plays on stage and in print, and to reposition playbooks within the historical culture and geopolitics of the book trade.
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