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Dramatists and their manuscripts in the age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood :

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Dramatists and their manuscripts in the age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood :

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authorship, authority and the playhouse /

Grace Ioppolo.

New York :

Routledge,

2006.

x, 234 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;

6

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-227) and index.

'As good a play for yr publiqe howse as euer was playd' : dramatists and authorship -- 'You give them authority to play' : dramatists and authority -- 'The fowle papers of the authors' : dramatists and foul papers -- 'A fayre copy hereafter' : dramatists and fair copies -- 'Plaide in 1613' : authorial and scribal manuscripts in the playhouse -- 'It sprang from ye poet' : Jonson, Middleton and Shakespeare at work.

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"This book presents new evidence drawn from manuscript and archival sources about the ways in which early modern dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences. Grace Iopollo argues that the path of the transmission of the text was not linear, from author to censor to playhouse to audience - as has been routinely argued by scholars - but circular. Authors returned to their texts, or texts were returned to their authors, at any or all stages after composition. The reunion of authors and their texts demonstrates that early modern dramatists collaborated in various ways and degrees in the theatrical production and performance of their plays, and that for early modern dramatists and their theatrical colleagues, authorship was a continual process, not determinate action." "Extant dramatic manuscripts, theatre records and accounts, as well as authorial contracts, memoirs, receipts and other archival evidence, are used to prove that the text returned to the author at various stages, including during rehearsal and after performance. This monograph provides new information and case studies, and will be a fascinating contribution to the fields of Shakespeare studies, early modern drama studies, manuscript studies, textual study and bibliography and theatre history."--Jacket.

Coutts Library Services

Jonson, Ben,1573?-1637-- Criticism and interpretation.

Middleton, Thomas,-1627-- Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Criticism and interpretation.

Authors and readers-- England-- History-- 16th century.

Authors and readers-- England-- History-- 17th century.

English drama-- 17th century-- Criticism, Textual.

English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- Criticism, Textual.

Manuscripts, English-- History-- 16th century.

Manuscripts, English-- History-- 17th century.

Theater audiences-- England-- History-- 16th century.

Theater audiences-- England-- History-- 17th century.

Transmission of texts-- England-- History-- 16th century.

Transmission of texts-- England-- History-- 17th century.

Authors and readers.

Drama

Englisch

English drama-- 17th century-- History and criticism.

English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.

English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan.

English drama.

Literature and society-- Great Britain-- 16th century.

Literature and society-- Great Britain-- 17th century.

Manuscripts, English.

Textproduktion

Theater audiences.

Theater-- Great Britain-- 16th century.

Theater-- Great Britain-- 17th century.

Transmission of texts.

England.

Englisch.

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