Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England

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  • ISBN 9781350248854
  • Weight: 338g
  • Dimensions: 126 x 194mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Jun 2021
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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This cutting-edge open access collection brings together major scholars of theatre and book history to explore the documents that constituted early modern plays before, during, and after performance.

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.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-ND licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Tiffany Stern is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan, Making Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Parts (with Simon Palfrey) and Documents of Performance in Early Modern England. She has co-edited a collection of essays with Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare’s Theatres and the Effects of Performance, and has edited King Leir, Sheridan’s The Rivals, Farquhar’s Recruiting Officer, and Brome’s Jovial Crew. She is general editor of New Mermaids and the Arden Fourth series.