Dramatic extracts in seventeenth-century English manuscripts : watching, reading, changing plays /
Laura Estill.
- Newark, Delaware : University of Delaware Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations, tables
Includes bibliographies and index.
List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Note on Transcription and Editorial Practice; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1 The Rise of Dramatic Extracting: Extracting from English Plays, 1590-1642 ; 2 Dramatic Extracts from Elizabethan and Stuart Masques and Entertainments ; 3 Theatrical Nostalgia: Dramatic Miscellanies and the Closure of the Theatres, 1642-1660 ; 4 Re-Presenting and Re-Reading the Renaissance: Restoration Extracts from Renaissance Plays, 1660-1700; 5 Archbishop Sancroft, Play-Reader and Collector of Dramatic Extracts 6 Proverbial Shakespeare: The Print and Manuscript Circulation of Extracts from Love's Labour's Lost Conclusion; Bibliography; Manuscript Index; Subject Index; About the Author
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. This is the first book to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays.