Documents of Performance in Early Modern England
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ISBN-13:
9780521842372
Veröffentl:
2015
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
01.06.2015
Seiten:
378
Autor:
Tiffany Stern
Gewicht:
699 g
Format:
235x157x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Using fresh print and manuscript evidence, Documents of Performance provides a new reading of playscripts in the Shakespearean period.
As well as being called 'poets', playwrights of Shakespeare's period were known as 'play-patchers' because their texts were made up of separate documents. Using fresh print and manuscript evidence, Stern explores the piecemeal nature of the playscript in the theatre, redefining what a play, and what a playwright, actually is.
Introduction: playwrights as play-patchers; 1. Plot-scenarios; 2. Playbills and title-pages; 3. 'Arguments' in playhouse and book; 4. Prologues, epilogues, interim entertainments; 5. Songs and masques; 6. Scrolls; 7. Backstage plots; 8 and 9. The approved 'book' and actors' parts; Conclusion: repatching the play.