From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage: How Did They Do It?

This book reconsiders the evidence for what we know (or think we know) about early modern performance conditions.

This study encourages a new recognition and treatment of certain aspects of the plays as evidence – and demonstrates the significance of the implications of that new information. This book is also an assessment of the competing narratives about the processes involved in early modern performance: about the status of manuscript playbooks, about the parts that players memorized, ab...