{"title":"Rethinking Prologues and Epilogues on Page and Stage","authors":"S. Massai, Heidi Craig","doi":"10.5040/9781350051379.ch-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350051379.ch-005","url":null,"abstract":"Our chapter rethinks current notions about early modern prologues and epilogues, by considering, for the fi rst time, 1 how differently these documents functioned on the stage and on the page. These documents are, for example, permanently printed in playbooks (when they were included), even though they were impermanently part of performance; they are permanently not printed in playbooks (when they were not included), even though they were spoken on stage; they were sometimes added to, or written for, the page; and they were sometimes tweaked for readers. This chapter therefore recovers the untold, specifi cally non- performance-focused story of prologues and epilogues, looking at, but also beyond, their function as theatrical documents spoken in early modern playhouses to consider them as texts that found their way into printed playbooks. This chapter also offers an overview of the rate of inclusion of prologues and epilogues in early modern printed playbooks. By so doing, it aims to establish whether some types of printed 91","PeriodicalId":446320,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132937183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shakespearean Extracts, Manuscript Cataloguing, and the Misrepresentation of the Archive","authors":"Laura Estill","doi":"10.5040/9781350051379.ch-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350051379.ch-009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":446320,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127088551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Is a Staged Book? Books as ‘Actors’ in the Early Modern English Theatre","authors":"Sarah Wall-Randell","doi":"10.5040/9781350051379.ch-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350051379.ch-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":446320,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England","volume":"460 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131437409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lost Documents, Absent Documents, Forged Documents","authors":"D. McInnis, R. Knutson","doi":"10.5040/9781350051379.ch-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350051379.ch-012","url":null,"abstract":"To speak of a ‘lost play’ and an ‘extant play’ is ostensibly to\u0000posit a simple dichotomy in ontological status, but the reality\u0000is more complex and involves a continuum of ‘lostness’. This is\u0000in part because, as Tiffany Stern has noted, ‘a play was pieced\u0000together out of a collection of odds and ends; it was not a\u0000single whole entity’ but something ‘patchy’ – any one of these\u0000odds and ends could easily become separated from its group\u0000and subsequently lost altogether...","PeriodicalId":446320,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England","volume":"234 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132180455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}