Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England

Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England
ISBN-10
1350051365
ISBN-13
9781350051362
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2019-11-14
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
Tiffany Stern

Description

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.

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