Rethinking theatrical documents in Shakespeare's England / edited by Tiffany Stern.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stern, Tiffany, editor.

A. H. Scouten Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater.

History.

English drama.

England.

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

Theater--England--History--16th century--Sources.

Theater--England--History--16th century.

Theater--England--History--17th century--Sources.

Theater--England--History--17th century.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xvi, 287 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : The Arden Shakespeare, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Part One: Documents Before Performance. 1. Writing a Play with Robert Daborne: Lucy Munro. 2. A Sharers' Repertory: Holger Syme. 3. Parts and the Playscript: Seven Questions: James J. Marino. 4. Undocumented: Improvisation, Rehearsal and the Clown: Richard Preiss

Part Two: Documents of Performance. 5. 'Rethinking Prologues on Page and Stage': Sonia Massai and Heidi Craig. 6. Title-and Scene-Boards: The Largest, Shortest Documents: Matt Steggle. 7. 'What is a staged book? Books as 'Actors' in the Early Modern English Theatre'

Part Three: Documents After Performance. 8. Flowers for English Speaking: Play Extracts and Conversation: András Kiséry. 9. Shakespearean Extracts and the Misrepresentation of the Archive: Laura Estill. 10. Typography After Performance: Claire M. L. Bourne. 11. Shakespeare the Balladmonger: Tiffany Stern

Part Four: Documents Beyond Performance. 12. Lost Documents, Absent Documents, Forged Documents: Roslyn Knutson and David McInnis. 13. Afterward: Peter Holland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the A. H. Scouten Memorial Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781350051348

1350051349

OCLC:

1120195923

Publisher Number:

99983910299