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Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare's England

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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 a...

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Main Author: Stern, Tiffany
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
Subjects:
Theater > England > History > 16th century > Sources.
Theater > England > History > 16th century.
Theater > England > History > 17th century > Sources.
Theater > England > History > 17th century.
Théâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle > Sources.
Théâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Théâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle > Sources.
Théâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Literary Criticism / Shakespeare.
Theater
England
1500-1699
Electronic books.
History
Sources
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (305 pages)
ISBN:1350051365
9781350051362
DOI:10.5040/9781350051379