Ralph Crane Research Articles

‘Changed to another form’

Abstract This article demonstrates how dramatic censorship in London's public theatres necessitated a kind of collaborative playwriting with extra-authorial labourers. In the playbook manuscript of Sir John van Olden Barnauelt, the Master of the Revels, Sir George Buc, and the playhouse scribe, Ralph Crane, engaged in a collaborative process that resulted in the most censored extant dramatic document of the early modern English theatres. The censorship is revealing of how political drama was interpreted by its first readers – it was Buc's exegetical interpretation of Barnauelt as anti-monarchical that led to his collaborative revisions and the play's restructuring. This style of censorship also has wider implications. If almost every play was read and revised by the Master of the Revels and perhaps edited by a scribe, then most early modern drama was collaboratively written.

Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination

Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination

Scribal Verse Manuscripts: The Poems Copied by Ralph Crane

Il existe six recueils manuscrits de poésie écrits de la main du scribe Ralph Crane (1565?-1632?). Ils contiennent des poèmes de William Austin, Philip Massinger, Thomas Randolph, John Donne, Thomas Carew, et des poètes des Inns of Court Francis Davison, Christopher Davison, William Bagnall, Richard Gipps et Joseph Bryan. Cet article examine les exemplaires copiés de ces poèmes, et les cercles plus larges de collectionneurs et de lecteurs où ils furent diffusés. Il suggère que même si les scribes professionnels qui les recopiaient et les rassemblaient travaillaient séparément, ils utilisaient des stratégies relativement similaires dans la présentation de leur travail. Cette comparaison offrira aussi un contrepoint à la théorie qui tenait pour unique la pratique de Crane, et infirmera l’hypothèse selon laquelle les exemplaires copiés par lui se caractérisaient par ses interférences textuelles.

Reading the Davison psalms in manuscript and print

This article discusses the production, dissemination, and reception of metrical psalms by Francis and Christopher Davison, using a full range of textual witnesses in manuscript and print. Although these metrical psalms have been well known through their transcriptions by the scribe Ralph Crane, the variety and extent of their material texts have not beenrecognised in previous scholarship. By paying attention to their contexts in manuscript and print, the article shows how a ‘book historical’ approach to early modern psalms informs us of many key issues in studies of early modern psalms. The Davison psalms were popular texts that attracted the attention of their readers and disseminators in various ways: initially circulated as devotional texts, they later found a home in far more miscellaneous contexts, where their copyists felt free to intervene and alter the texts as they saw fit. The Davison psalms may still remain minor texts in comparison with the most important early modern psalters, but their textual remains remind of how the period’s ‘psalm culture’ was sustained as much by eager readers as it was by enthusiastic authors.

The Review of English Studies Prize Essay: Dressing the Text: Ralph Crane’s Scribal Publication of Drama

The dramatic manuscripts which survive in the hand of the early modern scribe Ralph Crane (1565?-1632?) share a set of characteristics which have come to be associated with the scribe’s influence. This article discusses three of these features—an expurgation of oaths, the introduction of ‘massed entries’, and an unrestrained use of parentheses—and suggests that their presence shows Crane’s conscious refashioning of his manuscripts as overtly literary commodities, as books whose substance and presentation were designed to aid their intended recipient’s careful, solitary reading. Departing from theories that Crane made alterations to oaths to reflect ‘his own principles’, or ‘a personal animus’, that his massing of entries was a time-saving ‘idiosyncrasy’, or that his parentheses were ‘random’, I suggest that these aspects of Crane’s dramatic manuscripts are deliberate scribal choices based on his copy-texts, their status as drama, and a consciousness of their intended cultural use.

Ralph Crane and the Authorship of The Most Auntient Historie of God and Man , Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library MS PR2199.M67

This article examines the authorship of the 1629 manuscript poem The Most Auntient Historie of God and Man , now University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, MS PR2199.M67 (fig. 1). The manuscript and its contents have previously been tentatively attributed to the early modern scribe and poet Ralph Crane. This article uses surviving evidence of Crane’s hand, his compositional habits, and his scribal career in order to establish that Crane was not the author or scribe of the Auntient Historie . It goes on to consider possible alternative authors, including Richard Crashaw, Richard Corbett, Robert Creighton, Robert Croft, and Roger Cocks.

Bad Manners: A 1944 Life Magazine “Picture of the Week”

The Life magazine “Picture of the Week” from May 22, 1944, still shocks nearly seventy years later. In this photograph by Ralph Crane (1913–1988), viewers see a woman writing her boyfriend, an American soldier, a thank-you note for a strange and horrific gift: a Japanese soldier's skull. Passed by American censors and redeployed as anti-American propaganda in Japan, this photograph exposes the perils of mixing a foreign war, photography, and the home front mass media. This essay has two primary components. First, it discusses the formal and iconographic qualities of the photograph, which, in tandem with its barbaric backstory, help produce its deeply unsettling effects. Second, incorporating thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) and Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003), it explores the way that the “Picture of the Week” attempts and subsequently fails to rationalize the depicted brutality. This failure not only serves to emphasize the barbarity on display but also leads to a broader concluding discussion about the nature of photography and its attempts to communicate the unthinkable to a distant home front audience.

Why I Call Australia ‘Home’?

Why I Call Australia ‘Home’?

Correction: Scribe or Compositor: Ralph Crane, Compositors D and F, and the First Four Plays in the Shakespeare First Folio

Previous articleNext article No AccessNEWS AND NOTESCorrection: Scribe or Compositor: Ralph Crane, Compositors D and F, and the First Four Plays in the Shakespeare First FolioPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Volume 97, Number 2JUNE 2003 Published for the Bibliographical Society of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.97.2.24296044 Views: 1Total views on this site COPYRIGHT © 2003 THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICAPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

What I Will: Mediating Subjects; Or, Ralph Crane and the Folio's "Tempest"

Previous articleNext article No AccessWhat I Will: Mediating Subjects; Or, Ralph Crane and the Folio's "Tempest"Vernon Guy DicksonVernon Guy Dickson Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Volume 97, Number 1MARCH 2003 Published for the Bibliographical Society of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.97.1.24295802 Views: 4Total views on this site Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref COPYRIGHT © 2003 THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICAPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Andrew Sofer All’s I-L-L That Starts “I’le”: Acrostic Space and Ludic Reading in the Margins of the Early Modern Play-Text, Renaissance Drama 48, no.22 (Feb 2021): 273–308.https://doi.org/10.1086/712102

Scribe or Compositor: Ralph Crane, Compositors D and F, and the First Four Plays in the Shakespeare First Folio

Previous articleNext article No AccessScribe or Compositor: Ralph Crane, Compositors D and F, and the First Four Plays in the Shakespeare First FolioPaul WerstinePaul Werstine Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Volume 95, Number 3SEPTEMBER 2001 Published for the Bibliographical Society of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.95.3.24304489 Views: 5Total views on this site Citations: 2Citations are reported from Crossref COPYRIGHT © 2001 THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICAPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Andrew Sofer All’s I-L-L That Starts “I’le”: Acrostic Space and Ludic Reading in the Margins of the Early Modern Play-Text, Renaissance Drama 48, no.22 (Feb 2021): 273–308.https://doi.org/10.1086/712102Jürgen Meyer Editing Textual Synergies: New Historicism and “New Textualism”, Poetics Today 35, no.44 (Dec 2014): 591–613.https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2873503

:Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640

This is the first modern study of the production and circulation of manuscripts during the English Renaissance. The book examines the relationship between manuscript and print, looks at people who lived by their pens, and surveys authorial and scribal manuscripts, paying particular attention to the copying of verse, plays, and scholarly works by hand. It investigates the professional production of manuscripts for sale by scribes such as Ralph Crane and Richard Robinson. The second part of the book examines Sir Philip Sydney's works in the context of research conducted for this book, discussing all of Sidney's important manuscripts, and seeking to assess his part in the circulation of his works and his role in the promotion of a scribal culture. A detailed examination of the manuscripts and early prints of his poems, his Arcadias, and of Astrophil and Stella shed new light on their composition, evolution, and dissemination, as well as on Sidney's friends and admirers.

Bearman, R., Shakespeare in the Stratford Records and Bawcutt, N. (ed.), Collections, Volume XV: Ralph Crane's Transcript of A Game at Chess, Bodleian Manuscript Malone 25

Journal Article Bearman, R., Shakespeare in the Stratford Records and Bawcutt, N. (ed.), Collections, Volume XV: Ralph Crane's Transcript of A Game at Chess, Bodleian Manuscript Malone 25 Get access Simon Markham Simon Markham Oriel College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 42, Issue 3, September 1995, Pages 391–392, https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/42.3.391 Published: 01 September 1995

T. H. Howard-Hill, Ralph Crane and Some Shakespeare First Folio Comedies

Journal Article T. H. Howard-Hill, Ralph Crane and Some Shakespeare First Folio Comedies Get access Ralph Crane and Some Shakespeare First Folio Comedies. By T. H. Howard-Hill. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972. Pp. xvi + 190. $7.50. William C. McAvoy William C. McAvoy Saint Louis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 1, Winter 1975, Pages 79–81, https://doi.org/10.2307/2869279 Published: 01 January 1975

RALPH CRANE'S PARENTHESES

RALPH CRANE'S PARENTHESES

RALPH CRANE, SCRIVENER TO THE KING'S PLAYERS

Journal Article RALPH CRANE, SCRIVENER TO THE KING'S PLAYERS Get access F. P. WILSON F. P. WILSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume s4-VII, Issue 2, October 1926, Pages 194–215, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s4-VII.2.194 Published: 01 October 1926