Reprints and revivals of Renaissance drama edited by Eoin Price, Harry Newman

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Price, Eoin, 1986- editor.

Newman, Harry (Harry Rex), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

Drama--Publishing.

Renaissance.

England.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2026

Summary:

"Studies of early modern English drama in print and performance have often prioritized – or even fetishized – first editions and first performances. Challenging ingrained assumptions about chronology, this collection focuses critical attention on the various ways that Renaissance drama was repeated and renewed. Ranging widely across the period, from the 1580s to the early 1700s, the chapters examine canonical plays and authors-including Shakespeare and Ben Jonson-outside of the contexts in which they are ordinarily viewed. The chapters also demonstrates the significance of texts, authors, and forms of evidence that have been critically neglected, from lost plays and music manuscripts to playgoers' diaries and multi-author 'nonce' anthologies. As a whole, the collection opens up new areas of study and offers fresh perspectives on questions of temporality, commerce, aesthetics, agency, and canon-formation"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

1584 : the first evidence for playhouse reprints and revivals? / Andy Kesson

Alterations, piracies, and nonce volumes : Shakespeare’s print popularity, 1660-1700 / Emma Depledge

The Malcontent and the records of revival / Eoin Price

Henslowe on revivals / Roslyn L. Knutson

Reviving by design : the Christmas season at court, 1621-1622 / David Nicol

Reprinting Othello in Republican England / Justin Kuhn

Performing nostalgia : revivals of Jacobean plays at the court of Charles I / Catherine Clifford

A century of English drama : Restoration reprints of Tudor plays / Heidi Craig

Cham’s beard and Tartar’s bow : staging Mongolia in and after the Elizabethan repertory / Elizabeth E. Tavares

New worlds, old plots : Atlantic conquest and the revised Every Man in His Humour / Andrew Bozio

Musical reinventions for the King’s Men / Jennifer Moss Waghorn

Frames without pictures : Shirley’s prologues and epilogues in Poems &c (1646) / Laura Estill

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed May 12, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Reprints and revivals of Renaissance drama

ISBN:

9781108951784

1108951783

OCLC:

1552903021

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license