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Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first
book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It
tells a new history of drama from the period by considering the
page designs of plays by Shakespeare and others printed between the
end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth
century. It argues that typography, broadly conceived, was used
creatively by printers, publishers, playwrights, and other agents
of the book trade to make the effects of theatricality-from the
most basic (textually articulating a change in speaker) to the more
complex (registering the kinesis of bodies on stage)-intelligible
on the page. The coalescence of these experiments into a uniquely
dramatic typography that was constantly responsive to performance
effects made it possible for 'plays' to be marketed, collected, and
read in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a print genre
distinct from all other genres of imaginative writing. It has been
said, 'If a play is a book, it is not a play.' Typographies of
Performance in Early Modern England shows that 'play' and 'book'
were, in fact, mutually constitutive: it was the very bookishness
of plays printed in early modern England that allowed them to be
recognized by their earliest readers as plays in the first place.
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