Title: The voice of Elizabethan stage directions
First published: 1999
Description: Aimed at students of theater and of the drama as literature, this study highlights the form and voice of stage directions as an important aspect of dramatic discourse generally, and Elizabethan drama specifically. It traces the development of Elizabethan directions from their medieval forebears and contrasts the directions associated with the professional theaters with the neoclassical conventions of other venues.

Author Linda McJannet reveals similarities that underlie observed differences in the directions of manuscripts and printed texts, and she analyzes the contribution of Elizabethan directions to the survival of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, both in the theater and on the page.
Subjects: Theater, English drama, Stage directions, Production and direction, Criticism, Textual, Textual Criticism, History, Bühnenanweisung, Drama, Englisch, Early modern and Elizabethan, English drama, history and criticism, early modern and elizabethan, 1500-1600, Theater, great britain, history, Theater, production and direction, Stage management
Places: England
Time periods: 16th century, Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
LC classification: PR658.S59 M38 1999