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evidence drawn from manuscript and archival sources about the ways in which early modern dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences. Grace Ioppolo argues that the path of the transmission of the text was not linear, from author to censor to playhouse to audience—as has been routinely argued by scholars—but circular. Authors returned to their texts, or texts were returned to their authors, at any or all stages after composition. The reunion of authors and their texts demonstrates that early modern dramatists collaborated in various ways and degrees in the theatrical production and performance of their plays, and that for early modern dramatists and their theatrical colleagues, authorship was a continual process, not a determinate action.  \nExtant dramatic manuscripts, theatre records and accounts, as well as authorial contracts, memoirs, receipts and other archival evidence, are used to prove that the text returned to the author at various stages, including during rehearsal and after performance. This monograph provides new information and case studies, and will be a fascinating contribution to the fields of Shakespeare studies, early modern drama studies, manuscript studies, textual study and bibliography and theatre history.  \nGrace Ioppolo is Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Reading, UK.  \nRoutledge studies in Renaissance literature  \nand culture  \n1 Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre  \nP.A.Skantze  \n2 The Production of Popular Culture by Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson  \nMary Ellen Lamb  \n3 Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture  \nLethe’s legacies  \nEdited by Christopher Ivic and Grant Williams  \n4 Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture  \nThresholds of history  \nEdited by Theresa Krier and Elizabeth D.Harvey  \n5 Writing, Geometry and Space in Seventeenth-Century England and America  \nCircles in the sand  \nJess Edwards  \n6 Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton  \nand Heywood  \nAuthorship, authority and the playhouse  \nGrace Ioppolo  \nDramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood  \nAuthorship, authority and the playhouse  \nGrace Ioppolo  \nLONDON AND NEW YORK  \nFirst published 2006 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York,  \nNY 10016  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.  \nTo purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of [eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk](eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk).  \n© 2006 Grace Ioppolo  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission  \nin writing from the publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data  \nA catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-44942-8 Master e-book ISBN  \nISBN 0-203-69249-7 (Adobe eReader Format)  \nISBN 0-415-33965-0 (Print Edition)  \nFor Peter Beal  \nContents  \nList of figures viii  \nAcknowledgements x  \nIntroduction 1  \n1 ‘As good a play for yr publiqe howse as euer was playd’: dramatists and 10  \nauthorship  \n2 ‘You give them authority to play’: dramatists and authority 41  \n3 ","cbCair0p62aK2TWt","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair0p62aK2TWt","pdf",2826871,229,"English","# Contents\n## Introduction\n## Notes\n## Select bibliography\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the central argument about how texts circulated to playhouse audiences?\",\"answer\":\"The transmission of dramatic texts was not linear but circular, with authors returning to their manuscripts or texts returning to their authors at multiple stages after composition.\"},{\"question\":\"Which kinds of sources does the book use to support its claims?\",\"answer\":\"It draws on extant dramatic manuscripts, theatre records and accounts, and archival materials such as authorial contracts, memoirs, receipts, and related evidence.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book describe authorship in early modern theatrical production?\",\"answer\":\"Authorship is presented as a continual process rather than a fixed action, reflecting collaboration and varying degrees of participation by dramatists and theatrical colleagues.\"}]","Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood - Authorship, authority and the playhouse | PDF",1789773598,353]