Joint Enterprises - Collaborative Drama and the Institutionalization of the English Renaissance Theater (Hardcover, New)

Explores the phenomenon of joint authorship among playwrights in seventeenth-century England Over half of the plays of the English Renaissance were written collaboratively --by multiple dramatists working together. Joint Enterprises examines this kind of dramatic production, charting its social and professional significance as a historically embedded but personally inflected creative phenomenon. By situating individual joint works such as Eastward Hoe, The Two Noble Kinsmen, and The Changeling in specific institutional contexts, Heather Hirschfeld explores the diverse motivations driving dramatic collaborations, traces the distinct writerly relationships that developed from such energies, and analyzes their rhetorical effects in individual plays. Drawing on a range of documentary and literary sources as well as recent methodological advances in theater history, the book presents a sequence of case studies designed to accommodate both the larger cultural setting of the early modern theater and the localized, idiosyncratic factors influencing discrete literary productions. Each chapter chronicles the professional setting of a particular joint work and then investigates its rhetorical or linguistic traces in the resultant text. This approach allows Hirschfeld to locate specific links between modes of collaborative production and forms of dramatic representation and then explicate the literary and political implications of these connections. Hirschfeld's case studies provide a fresh account of the institutionalization--the steady growth, organization, and incorporation--of the professional drama in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century English cultural life. By attending to the changing shapesand stakes of joint enterprises, she shows that dramatists did not unconsciously absorb the practice of collaborative writing from general social discourses, but rather were aware of the material and symbolic significances of their work, meanings structured by the traditions of the developing professional theater and by the cultural pressures and anxieties attendant upon a new and often fragile institution.

General

Imprint:	University of Massachusetts Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
Release date:	February 2004
First published:	July 2004
Authors:	Heather Hirschfeld
Dimensions:	165 x 237 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-55849-434-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
LSN:	1-55849-434-0
Barcode:	9781558494343

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