Who reads plays? -- Why read plays? -- How were plays read? Part one: Extractive reading -- Wow were plays read? Part two: Using, marking, annotating -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Professional play quartos with Horatian title page mottoes, 1598-1659...
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Who reads plays? -- Why read plays? -- How were plays read? Part one: Extractive reading -- Wow were plays read? Part two: Using, marking, annotating -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Professional play quartos with Horatian title page mottoes, 1598-1659 "This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed drama's most common format, the single-play quarto playbook, it interrogates what the form and content of these playbooks can tell us about who their earliest readers were, why they might have wanted to read contemporary commercial drama, and how they responded to the printed versions of plays that had initially been performed in the playhouses of early modern London"--
