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Playbooks and their readers in early modern England
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ISBN: 9781032059013 103205901X 9781032232546 1032232544 9781003199748 9781000563115 9781000563092 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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"This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed drama's most common format, the single-play quarto playbook, it interrogates what the form and content of these playbooks can tell us about who their earliest readers were, why they might have wanted to read contemporary commercial drama, and how they responded to the printed versions of plays that had initially been performed in the playhouses of early modern London"--

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