Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Williams, William Proctor
• Marta Straznicky
• Straznicky, Marta

Titel

Vnder the Handes of . . .: Zachariah Pasfield and the Licensing of Playbooks

Ist Teil von

• Shakespeare's Stationers, 2012, p.63-94

Ort / Verlag

United States: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• So Henry Chettle describes his dealing with the manuscript and the preparation of printer’s copy and licensing of Robert Greene’s Groats-worth of Wit (1592) in “To the Gentlemen Readers,” in Chettle’s Kind-harts dreame of probably 1593 (STC 5123). Licensed it might have been, but when Greene’s book was entered by William Wright in the Stationers’ Register on 20 September 1592, the entry read, “Entred for his copie, vnder master watkins hande / vppon the perill of Henrye Chettle / a booke intituled Greenes Groatsworth of wyt.”¹ Whether Chettle was telling the truth or not, he seems to have been describing