Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare's England
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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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part One: Documents Before Performance. 1. Writing a Play with Robert Daborne: Lucy Munro. 2. A Sharers' Repertory: Holger Syme. 3. Parts and the Playscript: Seven Questions: James J. Marino. 4. Undocumented: Improvisation, Rehearsal and the Clown: Richard Preiss
- Part Two: Documents of Performance. 5. 'Rethinking Prologues on Page and Stage': Sonia Massai and Heidi Craig. 6. Title-and Scene-Boards: The Largest, Shortest Documents: Matt Steggle. 7. 'What is a staged book? Books as 'Actors' in the Early Modern English Theatre'
- Part Three: Documents After Performance. 8. Flowers for English Speaking: Play Extracts and Conversation: András Kiséry. 9. Shakespearean Extracts and the Misrepresentation of the Archive: Laura Estill. 10. Typography After Performance: Claire M.L. Bourne. 11. Shakespeare the Balladmonger: Tiffany Stern
- Part Four: Documents Beyond Performance. 12. Lost Documents, Absent Documents, Forged Documents: Roslyn Knutson and David McInnis. 13. Afterward: Peter Holland.