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The Actor as Playwright in Early Modern Drama

The Actor as Playwright in Early Modern Drama

Johnson, Nora

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ISBN10: 0521117372
ISBN13: 9780521117371
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jul 30 2009
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Uncovering important links between acting and authorship in early modern England, Nora Johnson traces the careers of Robert Armin, Nathan Field, Anthony Munday and Thomas Heywood, actors strongly interested in marketing themselves as authors and celebrities. However, the authorship they imagined had little to do with modern ideas of control and ownership. Shakespeare's famous silence about his own work is one strategy among many available to writers for the stage. Johnson provides an alternative to the debate between traditional and materialist readers of dramatic authorship.

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