Paratexts In English Printed Drama To 1642

Author : Thomas L. Berger,Sonia Massai,Tania Demetriou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Robert D. Hume
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
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 : Michelle M. Dowd,Tom Rutter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350161863

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The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama by Michelle M. Dowd,Tom Rutter Pdf

How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive approach to early modern drama help enable students to discuss a range of issues, including race and gender, in more productive ways? Underpinned by these questions, this collection offers a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on drama in Shakespeare's England, mapping the variety of approaches to the context and work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By paying attention to repertory, performance in and beyond playhouses, modes of performance, and lost and less-studied plays, the handbook reshapes our critical narratives about early modern drama. Chapters explore early modern drama through a range of cultural contexts and approaches, from material culture and emotion studies to early modern race work and new directions in disability and trans studies, as well as contemporary performance. Running through the collection is a shared focus on contemporary concerns, with contributors exploring how race, religion, environment, gender and sexuality animate 16th- and 17th-century drama and, crucially, the questions we bring to our study, teaching and research of it. The volume includes a ground-breaking assessment of the chronology of early modern drama, a survey of resources and an annotated bibliography to assist researchers as they pursue their own avenues of inquiry. Combining original research with an account of the current state of play, The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama will be an invaluable resource both for experienced scholars and for those beginning work in the field.

Author : Sara Freeman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780817371104

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Theatre History Studies 2016, Vol. 35 by Sara Freeman Pdf

Rosemarie K. Bank and Michal Kobialka, eds., Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter / Reviewed by Danny Devlin

Author : Barbara Ravelhofer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317111511

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James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre by Barbara Ravelhofer Pdf

James Shirley was the last great dramatist of the English Renaissance, shining out among other luminaries such as John Ford, Ben Jonson, or Richard Brome. This collection considers Shirley within the culture of his time, and highlights his contribution to seventeenth-century English literature as poet and playwright. Individual essays explore Shirley’s musical theatre and spoken verse, performance conditions, female agency and politics, and the presentation of his work in manuscript and print. Collectively, the essays assemble a larger picture of Caroline drama, showing it to be more than simply a nostalgic endgame, its poets daintily sipping hemlock on the eve of the Civil Wars. Shirley’s literary versatility and long life, spanning the last days of Queen Elizabeth I to the ascension of Charles II, make him an ideal writer through whom to examine the distinctive qualities of Caroline theatre.

Author : Tamara Atkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317079897

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Reading Drama in Tudor England by Tamara Atkin Pdf

Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays were made legible by the printed paratexts that accompanied them, it shows that by the middle of the sixteenth century it was possible to market a play for leisure-time reading. Offering a detailed analysis of such features as title-pages, character lists, and other paratextual front matter, it suggests that even before the establishment of successful permanent playhouses, playbooks adopted recognisable conventions that not only announced their categorical status and genre but also suggested appropriate forms of use. As well as a survey of implied reading practices, this study is also about the historical owners and readers of plays. Examining the marks of use that survive in copies of early printed plays, it explores the habits of compilation and annotation that reflect the striking and often unpredictable uses to which early owners subjected their playbooks.

Author : Hannah August
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000563115

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Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England by Hannah August Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed drama’s most common format, the single-play quarto playbook, it interrogates what the form and content of these playbooks can tell us about who their earliest readers were, why they might have wanted to read contemporary commercial drama, and how they responded to the printed versions of plays that had initially been performed in the playhouses of early modern London. Focusing on professional plays printed in quarto between 1584 and 1660, the book juxtaposes the implications of material and paratextual evidence with analysis of historical traces of playreading in extant playbooks and manuscript commonplace books. In doing so, it presents more detailed and nuanced conclusions than have previously been enabled by studies focused on works by one author or on a single type of evidence.

Author : Claire M. L. Bourne
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198848790

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Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England by Claire M. L. Bourne Pdf

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It tells a new history of drama from the period by considering the page designs of plays by Shakespeare and others printed between the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century. It argues that typography, broadly conceived, was used creatively by printers, publishers, playwrights, and other agents of the book trade to make the effects of theatricality--from the most basic (textually articulating a change in speaker) to the more complex (registering the kinesis of bodies on stage)--intelligible on the page. The coalescence of these experiments into a uniquely dramatic typography that was constantly responsive to performance effects made it possible for 'plays' to be marketed, collected, and read in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a print genre distinct from all other genres of imaginative writing. It has been said, 'If a play is a book, it is not a play.' Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England shows that 'play' and 'book' were, in fact, mutually constitutive: it was the very bookishness of plays printed in early modern England that allowed them to be recognized by their earliest readers as plays in the first place.

Author : Katarzyna Lecky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192571755

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Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance by Katarzyna Lecky Pdf

Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks ('cheapbooks') by Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, William Davenant, and John Milton alongside the portable cartography circulating in the same retail print industry. Domestic pocket maps were designed for heavy use by a broad readership that included those on the fringes of literacy. The era's de facto laureates all banked their success as writers appealing to this burgeoning market share by drawing the nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown. This book investigates the accessible world of small-format cartography as it emerges in the texts of the poets raised in the expansive public sphere in which pocket maps flourished. It works at the intersections of space, place, and national identity to reveal the geographical imaginary shaping the flourishing business of cheap print. Its placement of poetic economies within mainstream systems of trade also demonstrates how cartography and poetry worked together to mobilize average consumers as political agents. This everyday form of geographic poiesis was also a strong platform for poets writing for monarchs and magistrates when their visions of the nation ran counter to the interests of the government.

Author : Claire M. L. Bourne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350128156

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Shakespeare / Text by Claire M. L. Bourne Pdf

Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary – such as book/theatre, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital and original/copy – that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze, teach, perform and edit Shakespeare today. Drawing on methods from book history, bibliography, editorial theory, library science, the digital humanities, theatre studies and literary criticism, the collection as a whole proposes that our understanding of Shakespeare – and early modern drama more broadly – changes radically when 'either/or' approaches to the Shakespearean text are reconfigured. The chapters in Shakespeare / Text make strong cases for challenging received wisdom and offer new, portable methods of treating 'the text', in its myriad instantiations, that will be useful to scholars, editors, theatre practitioners, teachers and librarians.

Author : Lukas Erne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350080652

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The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies by Lukas Erne Pdf

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and textual studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on all the major areas of current research, notably the Shakespeare manuscripts; the printed text and paratext in Shakespeare's early playbooks and poetry books; Shakespeare's place in the early modern book trade; Shakespeare's early readers, users, and collectors; the constitution and evolution of the Shakespeare canon from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century; Shakespeare's editors from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century; and the modern editorial reproduction of Shakespeare. The Handbook also devotes separate chapters to new directions and developments in research in the field, specifically in the areas of digital editing and of authorship attribution methodologies. In addition, the Companion contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A-Z of key terms and concepts, a guide to research methods and problems, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field, and a substantial annotated bibliography. The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a reference work aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and libraries, a guide to beginning or developing research in the field, an essential companion for all those interested in Shakespeare and textual studies.

Author : Jean-Christophe Mayer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107138339

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Shakespeare's Early Readers by Jean-Christophe Mayer Pdf

This is the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced. A close examination of rare, often unpublished material offers a reconsideration of the role of readers in the history of Shakespeare's rise to fame.

Author : Eoin Price
Publisher : Springer
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137494924

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‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Playhouses in Renaissance England: The Politics of Publication by Eoin Price Pdf

At the start of the seventeenth century a distinction emerged between 'public', outdoor, amphitheatre playhouses and 'private', indoor, hall venues. This book is the first sustained attempt to ask: why? Theatre historians have long acknowledged these terms, but have failed to attest to their variety and complexity. Assessing a range of evidence, from the start of the Elizabethan period to the beginning of the Restoration, the book overturns received scholarly wisdom to reach new insights into the politics of theatre culture and playbook publication. Standard accounts of the 'public' and 'private' theatres have either ignored the terms, or offered insubstantial explanations for their use. This book opens up the rich range of meanings made available by these vitally important terms and offers a fresh perspective on the way dramatists, theatre owners, booksellers, and legislators, conceived the playhouses of Renaissance London.

Author : A. W. Ward,A. R. Waller
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521045207

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Cambridge History of English Literature 6, Part 2 by A. W. Ward,A. R. Waller Pdf

Author : Douglas S. Pfeiffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198714163

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Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts by Douglas S. Pfeiffer Pdf

Studying texts by Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Saint Jerome, George Gascoigne, and Fulke Greville, this volume explores authorial character as an instrument of textual analysis in the scholarship of early Renaissance literature.