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Playhouse Wills: 15581642

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Playhouse Wills: 15581642

Contributors:

By (Author) E Honigmann
Edited by Susan Brock

ISBN:

9780719030178

Publisher:

Manchester University Press

Imprint:

Manchester University Press

Publication Date:

1st April 2015

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Theatre studies

Dewey:

792.094209031

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

296

Dimensions:

Width 138mm, Height 216mm, Spine 16mm

Weight:

345g

Description

This edition, now available in paperback, constitutes an archive of source materials in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. It is a collection of over one hundred wills left by those who participated in the life of the theatre - from actors and dramatists to carpenters and costumiers. The wills not only offer vital historical evidence but are also important human documents, testaments to the social, financial, religious and sentimental lives of Shakespeare's contemporaries. Of the wills reprinted here, one third were newly discovered, and many of the rest printed for the first time from the original wills, thus preserving the vacillations and abandoned intentions of the testators. -- .

Author Bio

E.A.J. Honigmann was Joseph Cowen Professor of English at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Susan Brock is Honorary Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham.

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