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Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England

Author : Tiffany Stern
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350051357
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England written by Tiffany Stern and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Rethinking Theatrical Documents brings together fifteen major scholars to analyse and theorise the documents, lost and found, that produced a play in Shakespeare's England. Showing how the playhouse frantically generated paratexts, it explores a rich variety of entangled documents, some known and some unknown: from before the play (drafts, casting lists, actors' parts); during the play (prologues, epilogues, title-boards); and after the play (playbooks, commonplace snippets, ballads) – though 'before', 'during' and 'after' intertwine in fascinating ways. By using collective intervention to rethink both theatre history and book history, it provides new ways of understanding plays critically, interpretatively, editorially, practically and textually.

Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 1550-1700

Author : Marta Straznicky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521841245
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 1550-1700 written by Marta Straznicky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marta Straznicky offers a detailed historical analysis of early modern women's closet plays: plays explicitly written for reading, rather than public performance. She reveals that such works were part of an alternative dramatic tradition, an elite and private literary culture, which was understood as intellectually superior to and politically more radical than commercial drama. Elizabeth Cary, Jane Lumley, Anne Finch and Margaret Cavendish wrote their plays in this conjunction of the public and the private at a time when male playwrights dominated the theatres. In her astute readings of the texts, their contexts and their physical appearance in print or manuscript, Straznicky has produced many fresh insights into the place of women's closet plays both in the history of women's writing and in the history of English drama.

Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts

Author : Laura Estill
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1644530473
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (445 download)

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Book Synopsis Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts by : Laura Estill

Download or read book Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts written by Laura Estill and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts (selections from plays and masques) into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays is the first to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays. As this under-examined archival evidence shows, play readers and playgoers viewed plays as malleable and modular texts to be altered, appropriated, and, most importantly, used. These records provide information that is not available in other forms about the popularity and importance of early modern plays, the reasons plays appealed to their audiences, and the ideas in plays that most interested audiences. Tracing the course of dramatic extracting from the earliest stages in the 1590s, through the prolific manuscript circulation at the universities, to the closure and reopening of the theatres, Estill gathers these microhistories to create a comprehensive overview of seventeenth-century dramatic extracts and the culture of extracting from plays. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays explores new archival evidence (from John Milton’s signature to unpublished university plays) while also analyzing the popularity of perennial favorites such as Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The study of dramatic extracts is the study of particulars: particular readers, particular manuscripts, particular plays or masques, particular historic moments. As D. F. McKenzie puts it, “different readers [bring] the text to life in different ways.” By providing careful analyses of these rich source texts, this book shows how active play-viewing and play-reading (that is, extracting) ultimately led to changing the plays themselves, both through selecting and manipulating the extracts and positioning the plays in new contexts. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture

Author : Gary Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198185707
Total Pages : 1185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture written by Gary Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 1185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive companion to 'The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton', providing detailed introductions to and full editorial apparatus for the works themselves as well as a wealth of information about Middleton's historical and literary context.

Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce and the Book Trade

Author : Kirk Melnikoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107126207
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce and the Book Trade written by Kirk Melnikoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Christopher Marlowe and his work in the overlapping contexts of the professional theatre and the book trade.

John Webster

Author : Don D. Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134782985
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Book Synopsis John Webster by : Don D. Moore

Download or read book John Webster written by Don D. Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition

Author : Aleida Auld
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003816223
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition written by Aleida Auld and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume adds a new dimension to authorship studies by linking the editorial tradition to the transformative reception of early modern authors and their works across time. Aleida Auld argues that the editorial tradition provides privileged access to the reception of early modern literature, informing our understanding of certain reconfigurations and sometimes helping to produce them between their time and our own. At stake are reconfigurations of oeuvre and authorship, the relationship between the author and work, the relationship between authors, and the author’s own role in establishing an editorial tradition. Ultimately, this study recognizes that the editorial tradition is a stabilizing force while asserting that it may also be a source of strange and provocative reconceptions of early modern authors and their works in the present day. Scholars and students of early modern literature will benefit from this approach to editing as a form of reception that encompasses all the editorial decisions that are necessary to ‘put forth’ a text.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408143488
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Two Gentlemen of Verona written by William Shakespeare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Gentlemen of Verona is commonly agreed to be Shakespeare's first comedy, and probably his first play. A comedy built around the confusions of doubling, cross - dressing and identity, it is also a play about the ideal of male friendship and what happens to those friendships when men fall in love.William Carroll's engaging Introduction focuses on the traditions and sources that stand behind the play and explores Shakespeare's unique and bold treatment of them. Special attention is given to the strong female figure of Julia and the controversial final scene.

Jacobean Dramatists

Author : B.C. Southam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134539584
Total Pages : 893 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Jacobean Dramatists written by B.C. Southam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 893 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises of individual volumes on: Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and John Webster. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase oxes) and as individual volumes.

Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England

Author : D. McInnis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137403977
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England written by D. McInnis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England examines assumptions about what a lost play is and how it can be talked about; how lost plays can be reconstructed, particularly when they use narratives already familiar to playgoers; and how lost plays can force us to reassess extant plays, particularly through ideas of repertory studies.

Essays and Studies

Author : English Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Essays and Studies written by English Association and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

"Profit and Delight"

Author : Adam Smyth
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814330142
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book "Profit and Delight" written by Adam Smyth and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first sustained study of seventeenth-century printed miscellanies.

Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

Author : Heidi Craig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009224034
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars written by Heidi Craig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidi Craig demonstrates how dramatic and theatrical activity paradoxically thrived during the English theatre closures, 1642-1660.

British Drama, 1533-1642: 1609-1616

Author : Martin Wiggins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198739117
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book British Drama, 1533-1642: 1609-1616 written by Martin Wiggins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the sixth volume of a detailed play-by-play catalogue of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish authors during the 110 years between the English Reformation to the English Revolution, covering every known play, extant and lost, including some which have never before been identified. It is based on a complete, systematic survey of the whole of this body of work, presented in chronological order. Each entry contains comprehensive information about a single play: its various titles, authorship, and date; a summary of its plot, list of its roles, and details of the human and geographical world in which the fictional action takes place; a list of its sources, narrative and verbal, and a summary of its formal characteristics; details of its staging requirements; and an account of its early stage and textual history.

Essays and Studies

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Essays and Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660

Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521200042
Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-08-29 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

The Duchess of Malfi (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Author : John Webster
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393614670
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Duchess of Malfi (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) written by John Webster and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great English Renaissance tragedy—violent, powerful, unforgettable—in a freshly edited and annotated student edition. This Norton Critical Edition of John Webster’s 1612–13 tragedy offers a newly edited and annotated text together with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The Duchess of Malfi’s themes of love, loyalty, and betrayal have resonated through the centuries, making this a perennially popular play with audiences and readers alike. This volume includes a generous selection of supporting materials, among them Webster’s likely sources for the play (William Painter, George Whetstone, Simon Goulart, and Thomas Beard) as well as related works by Webster and George Wither on widows, funerals, and memorializing death. A generous selection from Mark H. Curtis’s classic essay, “The Alienated Intellectuals of Early Stuart England,” tells readers as much about the character of Bosola as it does about his creator. Henry Fitzgeffrey (1617) and Horatio Busino (1618) provide early responses to the play. “Criticism” is thematically organized to provide readers with a clear sense of The Duchess of Malfi’s central themes of dramaturgy; the politics of family, court, and religion; and gender. Also included are essays on contemporary re-imaginings of the play and its critical reception over time. Contributors include Don D. Moore, Inga-Stina Ewbank, Christina Luckyj, Barbara Correll, D. C. Gunby, Lee Bliss, Rowland Wymer, Brian Chalk, Theodora Jankowski, and Pascale Aebischer. A selected bibliography is also included.