Editing, performance, texts : new practices in medieval and early modern English drama / edited by Jacqueline Kenkins & Julie Sanders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jenkins, Jacqueline.

Sanders, Julie, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--To 1500--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xv, 241 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

The critical work of editing performance texts poses particular challenges for historians and scholars of the early periods of English literature, not least of which is the ephemerality of performance and the fragility of the archival evidence. the contributors to this volume engage with this challenge, asking how might editors of early period drama and performance literature account for the performance histories implied in the extant documents. the resulting chapters work in dialogue with each other to challenge many current givens in medieval and early modern drama research, especially around periodization and editorial practice, and around what constitutes archive. Divided into three key parts headed 'Enabling Manuscripts to Speak', 'Performance Traces in the Archive' and 'Editing Through Performance', the chapters collected here showcase cutting-edge research practices and approaches in textual editing, and in manuscript and performance studies to produce new ways of reading and working for students and scholars alike. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Enabling Manuscripts to Speak

1 What the Beauchamp Pageant Says about Medieval Plays / Claire Sponsler Sponsler, Claire 11

2 Reading Images, Drawing Texts: the Illustrated Abbey of the Holy Ghost in British Library MS Stowe 39 / Boyda Johnstone Johnstone, Boyda 27

3 The Towneley Manuscript and Performance: Tudor Recycling? / Murray McGillivray McGillivray, Murray 49

4 Performing the Percy Folio / Andrew Taylor Taylor, Andrew 70

Part II Performance Traces in the Archives

5 London Commercial Theatre 1500-1576 / Mary C. Erler Erler, Mary C. 93

6 The Revision of Manuscript Drama / James Purkis Purkis, James 107

7 Playing Ghismonda for 'fooles' and 'noble freinds': Revising for Performance Between Glausamond and Ghismonda / Kirsten Inglis Inglis, Kirsten 126

8 Cressida's Letter: Readings and Performances in the Shakespearean Archive / J. Gavin Paul Paul, J. Gavin 146

Part III Editing Through Performance

9 (Un) Editing with (Non-) Fictional Bodies: Pope's Daggers / Lynette Hunter Hunter, Lynette, Peter Lichtenfels Lichtenfels, Peter 171

10 Influencing Editors, Influencing Performers: the Page to Stage Relationship / Christie Carson Carson, Christie 198

11 Actors and Editors: A Feature of the Edition: Richard Brome Online / Richard Cave Cave, Richard, Eleanor Lowe Lowe, Eleanor, Brian Woolland Woolland, Brian 218.

ISBN:

9781137320100

1137320109

OCLC:

871331274