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Author: Marta Straznicky
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.70cm
Weight: 0.369kg
ISBN: 9781558495333
ISBN 10: 1558495339
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 30 June 2006
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is a book with a clear agenda, addressing an important and timely topic and assembling many of the most influential scholars working in the fields it addresses.... The collection offers a wide-ranging and consistently engaging discussion of the status of printed plays in early modern England.
As an important complement to performance-oriented studies, The Book of the Play is an outstanding contribution to scholarship on drama of the period. The essays in Straznicky's well-balanced collection are consistently of the highest scholarly standard and superbly expressed. Paratexts can spark off revolutions.--Kritikon LitterarumThis is a book with a clear agenda, addressing an important and timely topic and assembling many of the most influential scholars working in the fields it addresses. . . . The collection offers a wide-ranging and consistently engaging discussion of the status of printed plays in early modern England.--William Sherman, author of John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English RenaissanceThis collection is an admirable and multifaceted foray into an undeservedly neglected area, but unless such a debate to establish the extent of play-reading among different social classes is initiated it would seem that any future critical appraisals of reading Renaissance drama will be piecemeal and incomplete.--Essays in CriticismMarta Straznicky's preliminary essay introduces the question under discussion and summarizes the more detailed studies that follow, while its footnotes provide and excellent account of previous work. In under twenty pages it manages to say more than most books on the subject.--SHARP-News
"""As an important complement to performance-oriented studies, The Book of the Play is an outstanding contribution to scholarship on drama of the period. The essays in Straznicky's well-balanced collection are consistently of the highest scholarly standard and superbly expressed. Paratexts can spark off revolutions.""--Kritikon Litterarum ""This is a book with a clear agenda, addressing an important and timely topic and assembling many of the most influential scholars working in the fields it addresses. . . . The collection offers a wide-ranging and consistently engaging discussion of the status of printed plays in early modern England.""--William Sherman, author of John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance ""This collection is an admirable and multifaceted foray into an undeservedly neglected area, but unless such a debate to establish the extent of play-reading among different social classes is initiated it would seem that any future critical appraisals of reading Renaissance drama will be piecemeal and incomplete.""--Essays in Criticism ""Marta Straznicky's preliminary essay introduces the question under discussion and summarizes the more detailed studies that follow, while its footnotes provide and excellent account of previous work. In under twenty pages it manages to say more than most books on the subject.""--SHARP-News"
Author Information
MARTA STRAZNICKY is associate professor of English at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario.
