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Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood - Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse (Paperback, New)
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Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood - Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse (Paperback, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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This book presents new evidence about the ways in which English
Renaissance 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 Ioppolo
argues that the path of the transmission of the text was not
linear, from author to censor to playhouse to audience - as has
been universally 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 demonstrate 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.
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 much new information and case studies, and
will be a fascinating contribution to the fields of Shakespeare
studies, English Renaissance drama studies, manuscript studies,
textual study and bibliography and theatre history.
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