Paratext Printed With New English Plays 1660 1700

Author : Robert D. Hume
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 169 pages
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Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009270496

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Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660–1700 by Robert D. Hume Pdf

This Element Paratext printed with new English plays has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby contributing substantially to our understanding of larger patterns of generic evolution across two centuries. The presence (or absence) of twelve elements needs to be systematically surveyed. (1) Attribution of authorship; (2) generic designation; (3) performance auspices; (4) government license authorizing publication; (5) dedication; (6) prefaces of various sorts; (7a-b-c) list of characters (three types); (8) actors' names (sometimes with descriptive characterizations-very helpful for deducing intended authorial interpretation); (9) location of action; (10) prologue and epilogue for first production. Surveying these results, we can see that much of the generic evolution traceable in the later seventeenth century gets undone during the eighteenth-a reversal largely attributable to the Licensing Act of 1737. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Robert D. Hume
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009454129

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Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660-1700 by Robert D. Hume Pdf

This Element Paratext printed with new English plays has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby contributing substantially to our understanding of larger patterns of generic evolution across two centuries. The presence (or absence) of twelve elements needs to be systematically surveyed. (1) Attribution of authorship; (2) generic designation; (3) performance auspices; (4) government license authorizing publication; (5) dedication; (6) prefaces of various sorts; (7a-b-c) list of characters (three types); (8) actors' names (sometimes with descriptive characterizations-very helpful for deducing intended authorial interpretation); (9) location of action; (10) prologue and epilogue for first production. Surveying these results, we can see that much of the generic evolution traceable in the later seventeenth century gets undone during the eighteenth-a reversal largely attributable to the Licensing Act of 1737. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Diana Solomon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781644530771

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Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater by Diana Solomon Pdf

Often perceived as merely formulaic or historical documents, dramatic prologues and epilogues – players’ comic, poetic bids for the audience’s good opinion – became essential parts of Restoration theater, appearing in over 90 percent of performed and printed plays between 1660 and 1714. Their popularity coincided with the rise of the English actress, and Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater unites these elements in the first book-length study on the subject. It finds that these paratexts provided the first sanctioned space for actresses in Britain to voice ideas in public, communicate directly with other women, and perform comedy – arguably the most powerful type of speech, and one that enabled interrogation of misogynist social practices. This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Sonia Massai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:926813173

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Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 by Sonia Massai Pdf

Author : Paddy Bullard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191043703

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The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire by Paddy Bullard Pdf

Eighteenth century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of satire, and the century's novels, poems, plays, and prints resound with mockery and laughter, with cruelty and wit. The street-level invective of Grub Street pamphleteers is full of satire, and the same accents of raillery echo through the high scepticism of the period's philosophers and poets, many of whom were part-time pamphleteers themselves. The novel, a genre that emerged during the eighteenth century, was from the beginning shot through with satirical colours borrowed from popular romances and scandal sheets. This Handbook is a guide to the different kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' eighteenth century. It focuses on texts that appeared between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. Outlier chapters extend the story back to first decade of the seventeenth century, and forward to the second decade of the nineteenth. The scope of the volume is not confined by genre, however. So prevalent was the satirical mode in writing of the age that this book serves as a broad and characteristic survey of its literature. The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire reflects developments in historical criticism of eighteenth-century writing over the last two decades, and provides a forum in which the widening diversity of literary, intellectual, and socio-historical approaches to the period's texts can come together.

Author : Sandro Jung
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843843436

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British Literature and Print Culture by Sandro Jung Pdf

The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging articles. The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works, and the significance of the complex interrelationships that authors entertained with booksellers, publishers, and designers. They investigate how all these relationships affected the production of print commodities and how all the agents involved in the making of books contributed to the cultural literacy of readers and the formation of a canon of literary texts. Specific topics include a bibliographical study of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and its editions from its first publication to the present day; the illustrations of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the ways in which the interpretive matrices of book illustration conditioned the afterlife and reception of Bunyan's work; the almanac and the subscription edition; publishing history, collecting, reading, and textual editing, especially of Robert Burns's poems and James Thomson's The Seasons; the "printing for the author" practice; the illustrated and material existence of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, and the Victorian periodical, The Athenaeum. Sandro Jung is Research Professor of Early Modern British Literature and Director of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Ghent University. Contributors: Gerard Carruthers, Nathalie Collé-Bak, Marysa Demoor, Alan Downie, Peter Garside, Sandro Jung, Brian Maidment, Laura L. Runge.

Author : Gillian Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107037922

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Producing Women's Poetry, 1600-1730 by Gillian Wright Pdf

Gillian Wright combines literary and bibliographical approaches to examine the work of five English women poets in the period 1600-1730.

Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025813622

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A History of Restoration Drama 1660-1700 by Allardyce Nicoll Pdf

Author : Thomas L. Berger,Sonia Massai,Tania Demetriou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : English drama
ISBN : 1107037972

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Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 by Thomas L. Berger,Sonia Massai,Tania Demetriou Pdf

The paratexts in early modern English playbooks - the materials to be found primarily in their preliminary pages and end matter - provide a rich source of information for scholars interested in Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama and the History of the Book. In addition, these materials offer valuable insights into the rise of dramatic authorship in print, early modern attitudes towards theatre, notorious literary wrangles and the production of drama both on the stage and in the printing house. This unique two-volume reference is the first to include all paratextual materials in early modern English playbooks, from the emergence of print drama to the closure of the theatres in 1642. The texts have been transcribed from their original versions and presented in old-spelling. With an introduction, user's guide, multiple indices and a finding list, the editors provide a comprehensive overview of seminal texts which have never before been fully transcribed, annotated and cross-referenced.

Author : Sarah C. E. Ross,Rosalind Smith
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030429461

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Early Modern Women's Complaint by Sarah C. E. Ross,Rosalind Smith Pdf

This collection examines early modern women’s contribution to the culturally central mode of complaint. Complaint has largely been understood as male-authored, yet, as this collection shows, early modern women used complaint across a surprising variety of forms from the early-Tudor period to the late-seventeenth century. They were some of the mode’s first writers, most influential patrons, and most innovative contributors. Together, these new essays illuminate early modern women’s participation in one of the most powerful rhetorical modes in the English Renaissance, one which gave voice to political, religious and erotic protest and loss across a diverse range of texts. This volume interrogates new texts (closet drama, song, manuscript-based religious and political lyrics), new authors (Dorothy Shirley, Scots satirical writers, Hester Pulter, Mary Rowlandson), and new versions of complaint (biblical, satirical, legal, and vernacular). Its essays pay specific attention to politics, form, and transmission from complaint’s first circulation up to recent digital representations of its texts. Bringing together an international group of experts in early modern women’s writing and in complaint literature more broadly, this collection explores women’s role in the formation of the mode and in doing so reconfigures our understanding of complaint in Renaissance culture and thought.

Author : Heidi Craig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009224048

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Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars by Heidi Craig Pdf

Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the 'death' of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renaissance drama as a critical field. While the prohibition on playing in many respects killed the English stage, drama thrived in print, with stationers publishing unprecedented numbers of previously unprinted professional plays, vaunting playbooks' ties to the receding theatrical past. Marketed in terms of novelty and nostalgia, plays unprinted before 1642 gained new life. Stationers also anatomized the whole corpus of English drama, printing the first anthologies and comprehensive catalogues of drama. Craig captures this crucial turning-point in English theatre history with chapters on royalist nostalgia, clandestine theatrical revivals, dramatic compendia, and the mysteriously small number of Shakespeare editions issued during the period, as well as a new incisive reading of Beaumont and Fletcher's A King and No King.

Author : P. Pender,R. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137342430

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Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing by P. Pender,R. Smith Pdf

This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses on the ways it was originally packaged and promoted, how it circulated in its contemporary contexts, and how it was read and received in its original publication and in later revisions and redactions.

Author : John Tholen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004462397

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Producing Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses' in the Early Modern Low Countries by John Tholen Pdf

This book offers an analysis of paratextual infrastructures in editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and shows how paratexts functioned as important instruments for publishers and commentators to influence readers of this ancient text.

Author : Laura Jansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107024366

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The Roman Paratext by Laura Jansen Pdf

The first synoptic study of the interplay of frame, texts and readers in classical studies.

Author : Helen Smith,Louise Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139495844

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Renaissance Paratexts by Helen Smith,Louise Wilson Pdf

In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual category. Renaissance Paratexts takes a fresh look at neglected sites, from imprints to endings, and from running titles to printers' flowers. Contributors' accounts of the making and circulation of books open up questions of the marking of gender, the politics of translation, geographies of the text and the interplay between reading and seeing. As much a history of misreading as of interpretation, the collection provides novel perspectives on the technologies of reading and exposes the complexity of the playful, proliferating and self-aware paratexts of English Renaissance books.