Download or read book Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan written by Tiffany Stern and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention is often given to the performance of a text, but not to the shaping process behind that performance. This is the first history of the subject, from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. It examines the nature and changing content of rehearsal, drawing on a mass of autobiographical, textual, and journalistic sources. - ;Attention is often given to the performance of a text, but not to the shaping process behind that performance. The question of rehearsal is seldom confronted directly, though important textual moments - like revision - are often attributed to it. Whatismore, up unti.