Author: Murray, Timothy
Title: Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius in Seventeenth-Century England and France
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, (1987). orig.boards. 22x14cm, xii,292 pp. Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing, some light page-edge soil,VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction; Authorship as Material Form: Theatre's Obscene Counterfeiting; From Ben's Foul Sheets to Jonson's Parented Text; The Textual Apparatus of Jonson's Authorial Genius; The Critic's Standard; Theatrical Portraiture, or Figural Patronage: Pre-face; Phantoms of the Theatre; The Printed Portrait; Desire as Spectator: Portraits or Pleasures;Showing the Colors; Subliminal Genius.

Keywords: Comparative Literature, Seventeenth-Century, English Drama, French Theatre, Theater, Literary Criticism, Ben Jonson, Francois Aubignac,