Documents of Performance in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor Tiffany Stern is Professor of Early Modern Drama at Oxford University and the Beaverbrook and Bouverie Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at University College, Oxford. She specialises in Shakespeare, theatre history from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, book history and editing. Her previous publications include Shakespeare in Parts (co-written with Simon Palfrey, 2007, and winner of the 2009 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies), Making Shakespeare (2004) and Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (2000). Klappentext Using fresh print and manuscript evidence! Documents of Performance provides a new reading of playscripts in the Shakespearean period. Zusammenfassung As well as being called 'poets'! playwrights of Shakespeare's period were known as 'play-patchers' because their texts were made up of separate documents. Using fresh print and manuscript evidence! Stern explores the piecemeal nature of the playscript in the theatre! redefining what a play! and what a playwright! actually is. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: playwrights as play-patchers; 1. Plot-scenarios; 2. Playbills and title-pages; 3. 'Arguments' in playhouse and book; 4. Prologues, epilogues, interim entertainments; 5. Songs and masques; 6. Scrolls; 7. Backstage plots; 8 and 9. The approved 'book' and actors' parts; Conclusion: repatching the play.

Product details

• Authors: Tiffany Stern, Stern Tiffany
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2009
• EAN: 9780521842372
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84237-2
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Theatre Studies, Theatre: individual actors & directors, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600