Furthermore, he did so within his own lifetime, conscienciously overseeing its production at the Stansby press with an astonishing meticulousness. It was Ben Jonson who first published his dramatic works together with his poetry in a folio volume. Lukas Erne has argued that Shakespeare wrote for readers as well as for spectators, but whether Shakespeare was planning to publish his works in folio is unknowable 5. The question as to whether Shakespeare had indeed considered collecting and publishing his own works in folio is an open one. The author's death leaves a space for others, "his Friends", rather than legal inheritors, to engage themselves on his behalf, but also, conversely, to anoint themselves ad hoc executors of his literary estate. They also imply, obliquely, that the author has thus legally given up this natural right ("by death departed from that right"). The editors imply that only "death" prevented the author from doing so himself. William Shakespeare", Shakespeare's Comed (.)ģ The author's "right" to set forth and oversee his own writings is here assumed to be natural and "worthie to have bene wished". ![]() 6 Ben Jonson, "To the memory of my beloved, The Author, Mr. ![]()
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