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Documents of performance in early modern England /

As well as 'play-makers' and 'poets', playwrights of the early modern period were known as 'play-patchers' because their texts were made from separate documents. This book is the first to consider all the papers created by authors and theatres by the time of the opening...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stern, Tiffany
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Playwrights as play-patchers
  • Plot-scenarios
  • Playbills and title pages
  • 'Arguments' in playhouse and book
  • Prologues, epilogues, interim entertainments
  • Songs and masques
  • Scrolls
  • Backstage plots
  • The approved 'book' and actors' parts
  • Conclusion: Repatching the play.