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English drama --- English drama. --- Drama. --- Englisch. --- Rezeption. --- History and criticism. --- 1600-1699 --- 1600-1699. --- English literature --- History of civilization --- Drama --- anno 1600-1699

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Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts (selections from plays and masques) into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays is the first to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays. As this under-examined archival evidence shows, play readers and playgoers viewed plays as malleable and modular texts to be altered, appropriated, and, most importantly, used..

English drama --- History and criticism.

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This collection of essays examines medieval and early modern drama in the context of a rich and varied manuscript culture. Focusing on the production, performance, and reception of dramatic documents made in Britain between 1400 and 1700, the essays in this book shed new light on the role of dramatic manuscripts in a range of different social and literary spheres. From extant manuscripts of England’s mystery cycles to miscellanies kept by seventeenth-century readers, the documents discussed in this volume reflect a culture of producing and using drama in ways that have been overlooked by the recent critical focus on drama and print by theatre historians and literary critics. By showing the various continuities, exchanges, lendings, and borrowings between medieval and early modern scribal practices, as well as between manuscript and print practices, this volume interrogates accepted critical narratives about the way that drama has been historicized.

Drama --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- manuscripts [documents] --- plays [performed works] --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1799 --- England --- 091:792 --- 091 <41> --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 091:792 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Theater. Theaterwetenschap. Toneel --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Theater. Theaterwetenschap. Toneel --- Manuscripts [English ] --- Historical drama [English ] --- plays [performing arts compositions]

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This volume was created by the students of English 226: From Tablets to Tablets: Texts and Technologies, working with Professor Laura Estill and Susan Cameron, Special Collections Librarian, St Francis Xavier University.

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