Editing, Performance, Texts [electronic resource] : New Practices in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama /
Jenkins, Jacqueline.author.
Sanders, Julie.author.
The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization and editorial practice. They showcase cutting-edge research practices and approaches in textual editing, and in manuscript and performance studies to produce new ways of reading and working for students and scholars.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: New Practices; Part I: Enabling Manuscripts to Speak; 1 What the Beauchamp Pageant Says about Medieval Plays; 2 Reading Images, Drawing Texts: The Illustrated Abbey of the Holy Ghost in British Library MS Stowe 39; 3 The Towneley Manuscript and Performance: Tudor Recycling?; 4 Performing the Percy Folio; Part II: Performance Traces in the Archives; 5 London Commercial Theatre 1500-1576; 6 The Revision of Manuscript Drama
7 Playing Ghismonda for ''fooles'' and ''noble freinds'':Revising for Performance Between Glausamond and Ghismonda8 Cressida''s Letter: Readings and Performances in the Shakespearean Archive; Part III: Editing Through Performance; 9 (Un)Editing with ( Non-)Fictional Bodies: Pope''s Daggers; 10 Influencing Editors, Influencing Performers: The Page to Stage Relationship; 11 Actors and Editors: A Feature of the Edition Richard Brome Online; Index
Includes index.
The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization and editorial practice. They showcase cutting-edge research practices and approaches in textual editing, and in manuscript and performance studies to produce new ways of reading and working for students and scholars.
Performing arts.
Theater—History.
Poetry.
Theater.
Literature.
British literature.
Performing Arts.
Theatre History.
Poetry and Poetics.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Literature, general.
British and Irish Literature.