Documents of Performance in Early Modern England |  | Author: Stern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: eBooks
In Stock
Sales Rank: 724,158
Format: Kindle eBook
Language: English (Published)
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Pages: 377
Number Of Items: 1
ASIN: B002UPVVJC
Publication Date: October 15, 2009
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Product Description
As well as ‘play-makers’ and ‘poets’, playwrights of the early modern period were known as ‘play-patchers’ because their texts were made from separate documents. This book is the first to consider all the papers created by authors and theatres by the time of the opening performance, recovering types of script not previously known to have existed. With chapters on plot-scenarios, arguments, playbills, prologues and epilogues, songs, staged scrolls, backstage-plots and parts, it shows how textually distinct production was from any single unified book. And, as performance documents were easily lost, relegated or reused, the story of a play’s patchy creation also becomes the story of its co-authorship, cuts, revisions and additions. Using a large body of fresh evidence, Documents of Performance brings a wholly new reading of printed and manuscript playbooks of the Shakespearean period, redefining what a play, and what a playwright, actually is.
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