Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England write by Tiffany Stern. This book was released on 2019-11-14. Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. 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.
Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare's Time
Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare's Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare's Time write by Roslyn L. Knutson. This book was released on 2020. Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare's Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As early modernists with an interest in the literary culture of Shakespeare's time, we work in a field that contains many significant losses: of texts, of contextual information, of other forms of cultural activity. No account of early modern literary culture is complete without acknowledgment of these lacunae, and although lost drama has become a topic of increasing interest in Shakespeare studies, it is important to recognize that loss is not restricted to play-texts alone. Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare's Time broadens the scope of the scholarly conversation about loss beyond drama and beyond London. It aims to develop further models and techniques for thinking about lost plays, but also of other kinds of lost early modern works, and even lost persons associated with literary and theatrical circles. Chapters examine textual corruption, oral preservation, quantitative analysis, translation, and experiments in "verbatim theater", plus much more.
Moving Shakespeare Indoors
Moving Shakespeare Indoors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moving Shakespeare Indoors write by Andrew Gurr. This book was released on 2014-03-06. Moving Shakespeare Indoors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.
Shakespeare / Text
Shakespeare / Text - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare / Text write by Claire M. L. Bourne. This book was released on 2021-07-29. Shakespeare / Text available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary – such as book/theatre, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital and original/copy – that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze, teach, perform and edit Shakespeare today. Drawing on methods from book history, bibliography, editorial theory, library science, the digital humanities, theatre studies and literary criticism, the collection as a whole proposes that our understanding of Shakespeare – and early modern drama more broadly – changes radically when 'either/or' approaches to the Shakespearean text are reconfigured. The chapters in Shakespeare / Text make strong cases for challenging received wisdom and offer new, portable methods of treating 'the text', in its myriad instantiations, that will be useful to scholars, editors, theatre practitioners, teachers and librarians.
Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars
Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars write by Heidi Craig. This book was released on 2023-02-28. Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the 'death' of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renaissance drama as a critical field. While the prohibition on playing in many respects killed the English stage, drama thrived in print, with stationers publishing unprecedented numbers of previously unprinted professional plays, vaunting playbooks' ties to the receding theatrical past. Marketed in terms of novelty and nostalgia, plays unprinted before 1642 gained new life. Stationers also anatomized the whole corpus of English drama, printing the first anthologies and comprehensive catalogues of drama. Craig captures this crucial turning-point in English theatre history with chapters on royalist nostalgia, clandestine theatrical revivals, dramatic compendia, and the mysteriously small number of Shakespeare editions issued during the period, as well as a new incisive reading of Beaumont and Fletcher's A King and No King.
