Print Manuscript Performance

Author : Arthur F. Marotti,Michael D. Bristol
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0814208452

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Print, Manuscript & Performance by Arthur F. Marotti,Michael D. Bristol Pdf

The eleven essays in this volume explore the complex interactions in early modern England between a technologically advanced culture of the printed book and a still powerful traditional culture of the spoken word, spectacle, and manuscript. Scholars who work on manuscript culture, the history of printing, cultural history, historical bibliography, and the institutions of early modern drama and theater have been brought together to address such topics as the social character of texts, historical changes in notions of literary authority and intellectual property, the mutual influence and tensions between the different forms of "publication," and the epistemological and social implications of various communications technologies. Although canonical literary writers such as Shakespeare, Jonson, and Rochester are discussed, the field of writing examined is a broad one, embracing political speeches, coterie manuscript poetry, popular pamphlets, parochially targeted martyrdom accounts, and news reports. Setting writers, audiences, and texts in their specific historical context, the contributors focus on a period in early modern England, from the late sixteenth through the late seventeenth century, when the shift from orality and manuscript communication to print was part of large-scale cultural change. Arthur F. Marotti's and Michael D. Bristol's introduction analyzes some of the sociocultural issues implicit in the collection and relates the essays to contemporary work in textual studies, bibliography, and publication history.

Author : David McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-10
Category : Design
ISBN : 052182690X

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Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830 by David McKitterick Pdf

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Author : Stephen Karian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521198042

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Jonathan Swift in Print and Manuscript by Stephen Karian Pdf

An important study of how Swift's texts were circulated, and the different meanings of print and manuscript in his career.

Author : Linda Phyllis Austern,Candace Bailey,Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253024978

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Beyond Boundaries by Linda Phyllis Austern,Candace Bailey,Amanda Eubanks Winkler Pdf

English music studies often apply rigid classifications to musical materials, their uses, their consumers, and performers. The contributors to this volume argue that some performers and manuscripts from the early modern era defy conventional categorization as "amateur" or "professional," "native" or "foreign." These leading scholars explore the circulation of music and performers in early modern England, reconsidering previously held ideas about the boundaries between locations of musical performance and practice.

Author : Claire M. L. Bourne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192588531

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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 : Laura Estill
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644530474

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Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts by Laura Estill Pdf

Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts (selections from plays and masques) into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays is the first to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays. As this under-examined archival evidence shows, play readers and playgoers viewed plays as malleable and modular texts to be altered, appropriated, and, most importantly, used. These records provide information that is not available in other forms about the popularity and importance of early modern plays, the reasons plays appealed to their audiences, and the ideas in plays that most interested audiences. Tracing the course of dramatic extracting from the earliest stages in the 1590s, through the prolific manuscript circulation at the universities, to the closure and reopening of the theatres, Estill gathers these microhistories to create a comprehensive overview of seventeenth-century dramatic extracts and the culture of extracting from plays. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays explores new archival evidence (from John Milton’s signature to unpublished university plays) while also analyzing the popularity of perennial favorites such as Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The study of dramatic extracts is the study of particulars: particular readers, particular manuscripts, particular plays or masques, particular historic moments. As D. F. McKenzie puts it, “different readers [bring] the text to life in different ways.” By providing careful analyses of these rich source texts, this book shows how active play-viewing and play-reading (that is, extracting) ultimately led to changing the plays themselves, both through selecting and manipulating the extracts and positioning the plays in new contexts. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Roslyn L. Knutson,David McInnis,Matthew Steggle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030368678

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Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time by Roslyn L. Knutson,David McInnis,Matthew Steggle Pdf

As early modernists with an interest in the literary culture of Shakespeare’s time, we work in a field that contains many significant losses: of texts, of contextual information, of other forms of cultural activity. No account of early modern literary culture is complete without acknowledgment of these lacunae, and although lost drama has become a topic of increasing interest in Shakespeare studies, it is important to recognize that loss is not restricted to play-texts alone. Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time broadens the scope of the scholarly conversation about loss beyond drama and beyond London. It aims to develop further models and techniques for thinking about lost plays, but also of other kinds of lost early modern works, and even lost persons associated with literary and theatrical circles. Chapters examine textual corruption, oral preservation, quantitative analysis, translation, and experiments in “verbatim theater”, plus much more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106018775616

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Early American Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Johnston,Michael Van Dussen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107066199

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The Medieval Manuscript Book by Michael Johnston,Michael Van Dussen Pdf

This book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.

Author : Steven W. May
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198878025

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English Renaissance Manuscript Culture by Steven W. May Pdf

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution traces the development of a new type of scribal culture in England that emerged early in the fourteenth century. The main medieval writing surfaces of parchment and wax tablets were augmented by a writing medium that was both lasting and cheap enough to be expendable. Writing was transformed from a near monopoly of professional scribes employed by the upper class to a practice ordinary citizens could afford. Personal correspondence, business records, notebooks on all sorts of subjects, creative writing, and much more flourished at social levels where they had previously been excluded by the high cost of parchment. Steven W. May places literary manuscripts and in particular poetic anthologies in this larger scribal context, showing how its innovative features affected both authorship and readership. As this amateur scribal culture developed, the medieval professional culture expanded as well. Classes of documents formerly restricted to parchment often shifted over to paper, while entirely new classes of documents were added to the records of church and state as these institutions took advantage of relatively inexpensive paper. Paper stimulated original composition by making it possible to draft, revise, and rewrite works in this new, affordable medium. Amateur scribes were soon producing an enormous volume of manuscript works of all kinds—works they could afford to circulate in multiple copies. England's ever-increasing literate population developed an informal network that transmitted all kinds of texts from single sheets to book-length documents efficiently throughout the kingdom. The operation of restrictive coteries had little if any role in the mass circulation of manuscripts through this network. However, paper was cheap enough that manuscripts could also be readily disposed of (unlike expensive parchment). More than 90% of the output from this scribal tradition has been lost, a fact that tends to distort our understanding and interpretation of what has survived. May illustrates these conclusions with close analysis of representative manuscripts.

Author : Elizabeth Rivlin
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810127814

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The Aesthetics of Service in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Rivlin Pdf

In The Aesthetics of Service in Early Modern England, Elizabeth Rivlin explores the ways in which servant-master relationships reshaped literature. The early modern servant is enjoined to obey his or her master out of dutiful love, but the servant's duty actually amounts to standing in for the master, a move that opens the possibility of becoming master. Rivlin shows that service is fundamentally a representational practice, in which the servant who acts for a master merges with the servant who acts as a master. Rivlin argues that in the early modern period, servants found new positions as subjects and authors found new forms of literature. Representations of servants and masters became a site of contact between pressing material concerns and evolving aesthetic ones. Offering readings of dramas by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Thomas Dekker and prose fictions by Thomas Deloney and Thomas Nashe, Rivlin suggests that these authors discovered their own exciting and unstable projects in the servants they created.

Author : Joshua Eckhardt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780199559503

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Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry by Joshua Eckhardt Pdf

This book analyzes the distinctive contribution to literary history of early-seventeenth-century hand-written English poetry anthologies. Compiled by manuscript verse collectors, these anthologies preserved a number of pieces by major authors of the English Renaissance, yet they tended to surround them with unprintable verses on sex and politics.

Author : Teemu Immonen,Gabriele Müller-Oberhäuser
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789526877648

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Golden Leaves and Burned Books by Teemu Immonen,Gabriele Müller-Oberhäuser Pdf

In religious reforms, books and other forms of written communication play a dominant role, both for individuals as well as for groups. Covering the period from the late Middle Ages to the early seventeenth century, the chapters of this volume reflect on the use of books in religious reform movements and their impact on lay people and monastic communities. For those committed to religious renewal, books are the necessary and often enthusiastically welcomed vehicles for the transmission of religious reform concepts. They are at the same time often the objects of severe opposition and negative reactions in attempts at hindering or reversing religious reform for others. The researchers make use of approaches from cultural history, book history and English studies, among others. Contributions range from theory and practices of religious reform with special regard to the interaction between the laity and religious orders in their search for models of 'good religious living' to research on the changing processes of communication from manuscript to print and their impact on religious renewal.

Author : Jennifer Richards
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198809067

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Voices and Books in the English Renaissance by Jennifer Richards Pdf

"Two ideas lie at the heart of this study and its claim that we need a new history of reading: that voices in books can affect us deeply ; that printed books can be brought to life with the voice. Voices and Books offers a new history of reading focussed on the oral and voice-aware silent reader, rather than the historical reader we have privileged in the last few decades, who is invariably male, silent, and alone. It recovers the vocality of education for boys and girls in Renaissance England, and the importance of training in pronuntiatio (delivery) for oral-aural literary culture. It offers the first attempt to recover the voice-and tone-from textual sources. It explores what happens when we bring voice to text, how vocal tone realizes or changes textual meaning, and how the literary writers of the past tried to represent their own and others' voices, as well as manage and exploit the voices of their readers. It offers fresh readings of the key Tudor authors who anticipated oral readers: John Bale, Anne Askew, William Baldwin, Thomas Nashe. And it aims to rethink what a printed book can be, searching the printed page for vocal cues, and exploring the neglected role of the voice in the printing process"-- Provided by publisher.

Author : M. Bigold
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137033574

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Women of Letters, Manuscript Circulation, and Print Afterlives in the Eighteenth Century by M. Bigold Pdf

Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter-writing functions as a form of literary manuscript exchange and argues for manuscript circulation as a method of engaging with the republic of letters.