270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
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Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays were made legible by the printed paratexts that accompanied them, it shows that by the middle of the sixteenth century it was possible to market a play for leisure-time reading. Offering a detailed analysis of such features as title-pages, character... Read more
Reading Drama in Tudor England
Biography
Tamara Atkin is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
"Reading Drama is therefore a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarship that treats the genre of ‘the play’ in early modern England as a resilient, adaptable, and varied category of imaginative writing, a ‘thing’ defined by as much by its material textuality as by its theatrical lives."
- Claire M.L. Bourne, Pennsylvania State University, Early Theatre
