This collection of essays examines medieval and early modern drama in the context of a rich and varied manuscript culture. Focusing on the production, performan

Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries,

Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In cont

Early British Drama in Manuscript is the first book-length study to focus exclusively on medieval and early modern drama in the context of a rich and varied man

The eleven essays in this volume explore the complex interactions in early modern England between a technologically advanced culture of the printed book and a s