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David J. Amelang, "From Directions to Descriptions: Reading the Theatrical Nebentext in Ben Jonson’s Workes as an Authorial Outlet” (SEDERI 27, 2017), pp. 7–26.
- Author(s):
- David Amelang (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- Early Modern Theater, Renaissance / Early Modern Studies, Shakespeare, The Renaissance Society of America
- Subject(s):
- Theater, History, English drama, Sixteenth century, Seventeenth century, Books
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Theatre history, Early modern English drama, Book history, History of the book, Manuscript culture
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/f6dn-w706
- Abstract:
- This article explores how certain dramatists in early modern England and in Spain, specifically Ben Jonson and Miguel de Cervantes (with much more emphasis on the former), pursued authority over texts by claiming as their own a new realm which had not been available – or, more accurately, as prominently available – to playwrights before: the stage directions in printed plays. The way both these playwrights and/or their publishers dealt with the transcription of stage directions provides perhaps the clearest example of a theatrical convention translated into the realm of readership.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
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- All Rights Reserved
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