Documents of performance in early modern England
By: Tiffany Stern.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521842372
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- Criticism, Textual; English drama -- 17th century -- Criticism, Textual; Theater -- Production and direction -- England -- History -- 16th century; Theater -- Production and direction -- England -- History -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: playwrights as play-patchers; 1. Plot-scenarios; 2. Playbills and title-pages; 3. 'Arguments' in playhouse and book; 4. Prologues, epilogues, interim entertainments; 5. Songs and masques; 6. Scrolls; 7. Backstage plots; 8 and 9. The approved 'book' and actors' parts; Conclusion: repatching the play.