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Record Nr.

UNINA9910634085403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London England : , : The Arden Shakespeare, , 2019

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

792.094209031

Soggetti

Theater - England - History - 16th century - Sources

Theater - England - History - 16th century

Theater - England - History - 17th century - Sources

Theater - England - History - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.