Dramatic extracts in seventeenth-century English manuscripts : watching, reading, changing plays / Laura Estill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estill, Laura, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2015]

Summary:

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..

Contents:

Cover-Page

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Note on Transcription and Editorial Practice

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Rise of Dramatic Extracting: Extracting from English Plays, 1590-1642

2 Dramatic Extracts from Elizabethan and Stuart Masques and Entertainments

3 Theatrical Nostalgia: Dramatic Miscellanies and the Closure of the Theatres, 1642-1660

4 Re-Presenting and Re-Reading the Renaissance: Restoration Extracts from Renaissance Plays, 1660-1700

5 Archbishop Sancroft, Play-Reader and Collector of Dramatic Extracts

6 Proverbial Shakespeare: The Print and Manuscript Circulation of Extracts from Love's Labour's Lost

Conclusion

Bibliography

Manuscript Index

Subject Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-64453-047-3

OCLC:

1245672017