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Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
Series: Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
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This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial
drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its
focus pre-Restoration printed drama's most common format, the
single-play quarto playbook, it interrogates what the form and
content of these playbooks can tell us about who their earliest
readers were, why they might have wanted to read contemporary
commercial drama, and how they responded to the printed versions of
plays that had initially been performed in the playhouses of early
modern London. Focusing on professional plays printed in quarto
between 1584 and 1660, the book juxtaposes the implications of
material and paratextual evidence with analysis of historical
traces of playreading in extant playbooks and manuscript
commonplace books. In doing so, it presents more detailed and
nuanced conclusions than have previously been enabled by studies
focused on works by one author or on a single type of evidence.
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