Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeares England

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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Rethinking Theatrical Documents brings together fifteen major scholars to analyse and theorise the documents, lost and found, that produced a play in Shakespeares England. Showing how the playhouse frantically generated paratexts, it explores a rich variety of entangled documents, some known and some unknown: from before the play (drafts, casting lists, actors parts); during the play (prologues, epilogues, title-boards); and after the play (playbooks, commonplace snippets, ballads) though before, during and after intertwine in fascinating ways. By using collective intervention to rethink both theatre history and book history, it provides new ways of understanding plays critically, interpretatively, editorially, practically and textually.

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An invaluable contribution of Rethinking Theatrical Documents is its expansion of both what constitutes the stuff of plays and how such play stuffs were manipulated. * Early Theatre *

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Tiffany Stern is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan, Making Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Parts (with Simon Palfrey) and Documents of Performance in Early Modern England. She has co-edited a collection of essays with Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeares Theatres and the Effects of Performance, and has edited King Leir, Sheridans The Rivals, Farquhars Recruiting Officer, and Bromes Jovial Crew. She is general editor of New Mermaids and the Arden Fourth series.