From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England.

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: Erne, Lukas | Copyright information

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 ...

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