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Walter Burre (fl. 1597 – 1622) was a London bookseller and publisher of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, best remembered for publishing several key texts in English Renaissance drama. Burre was made a "freeman" of the Stationers Company — meaning that he became a full-fledged member of the London guild of booksellers — in 1596. From 1597 to 1622 he did business in a sequence of three London shops; the most important was at the sign of the Crane in St. Paul's Churchyard (1604 and after). ==Drama and Literature== In the span of a decade, Burre published the first editions of four plays by Ben Jonson:〔E. K. Chambers, ''The Elizabethan Stage,'' 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923; Vol. 3, pp. 359-72.〕 * ''Every Man in His Humour,'' 1601 * ''Cynthia's Revels,'' 1601 * ''The Alchemist,'' 1610 * ''Catiline: His Conspiracy,'' 1611. Beyond the confines of the Jonson canon, Burre issued a number of other first quartos of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays — Thomas Nashe's ''Summer's Last Will and Testament'' (1600), Thomas Middleton's ''A Mad World, My Masters'' (1608), Thomas Tomkis's ''Albumazar'' (1615), George Ruggle's ''Ignoramus'' (also 1615), and perhaps most importantly, Francis Beaumont's ''The Knight of the Burning Pestle'' (1613).〔Chambers, Vol. 3, pp. 220-1, 439-40, 451, 498.〕 In the latter volume, Burre wrote the dedicatory letter to Robert Keysar, shareholder and manager of the Queen's Revels Children, the company of boy actors that had premiered the play in 1607; Burre congratulated Keysar on preserving the play after its initial failure, which Burre explained by noting that the audience failed to understand the "privy mark of irony" in the work. (One scholar, Zachary Lesser, has argued that Burre specialized in publishing plays that had initially failed on the stage. This would certainly apply to Beaumont's play, and to ''Cynthia's Revels'' and ''Catiline.'')〔Zachary Lesser, "Walter Burre's "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," ''English Literary Renaissance'' Vol. 29 No. 1 (Winter 1999), pp. 22-43.〕〔Zachary Lesser, ''Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade,'' Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004; chapter 3.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Burre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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