Description
| Product ID: | 9781350248854 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England |
| Authors: | Author: Dr Tiffany Stern |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare studies & criticism, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | The Arden Shakespeare |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-06-03 |