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Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays

Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays

Estill, Laura

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Literary CriticismGeneral DramaPlays

ISBN10: 1644530465
ISBN13: 9781644530467
Publisher: Univ Of Delaware Pr
Published: Jan 21 2015
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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. These records provide information that is not available in other forms about the popularity and importance of early modern plays, the reasons plays appealed to their audiences, and the ideas in plays that most interested audiences.

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