SN=Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 2 Volume Set
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Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 2 Volume Set
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Hardback | English
The paratexts in early modern English playbooks - the materials to be found primarily in their preliminary pages and end matter - provide a rich source of information for scholars interested in Shakespeare, Renaissance drama and the history of the book. In addition, these materials offer valuable insights into the rise of dramatic authorship in print, early modern attitudes towards theatre, notorious literary wrangles and the production of drama both on the stage and in the printing house. This unique two-volume reference is the first to include all paratextual materials in early modern English playbooks, from the emergence of print drama to the closure of the theatres in 1642. The texts have been transcribed from their original versions and presented in old-spelling. With an introduction, user's guide, multiple indices and a finding list, the editors provide a comprehensive overview of seminal texts which have never before been fully transcribed, annotated and cross-referenced.
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Product Details
Format: Hardback
Weight: 2440g
Dimensions: 193 x 250mm
Publication Date: 24 Apr 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780521851848
About
Thomas L. Berger is Piskor Professor Emeritus of St Lawrence University and is currently Scholar in Residence at Mary Baldwin College. His research interests are focused on early modern English drama with a concentration on textual and bibliographical matters and his publications include Which Shakespeare? A User's Guide to Editions (1991) with Ann Thompson A. R. Braunmuller Philip Edwards and Lois Potter and An Index of Characters in Early Modern English Printed Drama (1999) with William Bradford and Sidney Sondergard. He is also the co-editor with Laurie E. Maguire of Textual Formations and Reformations (1999). His articles and reviews have been published in Shakespeare Quarterly Renaissance Quarterly and Shakespeare Studies. Sonia Massai is Reader in Shakespeare Studies at King's College London. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (2007) and contributor to and editor of World-Wide Shakespeare: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance (2005). Her publications on early modern print history have appeared in Shakespeare Survey The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare Renaissance Paratexts Shakespeare and the Arts The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare and the Text and Textual Performances. She has edited 'Tis Pity She's a Whore for the Arden Early Modern Drama series The Wise Woman of Hoxton for the Globe Quarto series and Titus Andronicus for the New Penguin Shakespeare. She is currently writing a new book on Shakespeare and Global Modernity and co-editing The Cambridge Handbook to Shakespeare and Textual Studies with Margaret Jane Kidnie.