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The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
Marta Straznicky (Ed.)
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Description for The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
Paperback. Demonstrates the importance of textual production to understanding the place of drama in the early modern public sphere. This collection of essays examines early modern drama in the context of book history, and focuses on the readership of plays that opens different perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance. Editor(s): Straznicky, Marta. Series: Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
The Book of the Play is a collection of essays that examines early modern drama in the context of book history. Focusing on the publication, marketing, and readership of plays opens fresh perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance, and more broadly between drama and the public sphere. Marta Straznicky's introduction offers a survey of approaches to the history of play reading in this period, and the collection as a whole consolidates recent work in textual, bibliographic, and cultural studies of printed drama. Individually, the essays advance our understanding of play reading as a practice with ... Read more
The Book of the Play is a collection of essays that examines early modern drama in the context of book history. Focusing on the publication, marketing, and readership of plays opens fresh perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance, and more broadly between drama and the public sphere. Marta Straznicky's introduction offers a survey of approaches to the history of play reading in this period, and the collection as a whole consolidates recent work in textual, bibliographic, and cultural studies of printed drama. Individually, the essays advance our understanding of play reading as a practice with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Series
Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558495333
SKU
V9781558495333
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About Marta Straznicky (Ed.)
MARTA STRAZNICKY is associate professor of English at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario.
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