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Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts

Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts

Watching, Reading, Changing Plays

Laura Estill

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Estill, Laura.

Dramatic extracts in seventeenth-century English manuscripts : watching, reading, changing plays / Laura Estill.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61149-514-0 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-61149-515-7 (electronic) 1. English drama17th centuryHistory and criticism. I. Title.

PR655.E88 2014

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2014040029

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Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Note on Transcription and Editorial Practice

In quotations from early sources, I have normalized i/j, u/v/w, long s, and ff for F. I have silently expanded common abbreviations (such as ye for the and macrons indicating dropped m or n). I use square brackets to show my additions. I mark intralinear insertions in the manuscript with ^carets^. Spelling is normalized when discussing multiple early sources for texts.

To clarify page, folio, and signature, I use p., f., and sig. for early sources. The recto of folios is unmarked except when citing both sides as rv.

Unless otherwise noted, early modern printed texts were consulted using Early English Books Online ( EEBO ) or Eighteenth-Century Collections Online ( ECCO ).

Line numbers for Shakespeares plays are taken from the The Riverside Shakespeare , 2nd ed., ed. G. Blakemore Evans et al., (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997). Line numbers for Jonsons plays are taken from The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson , ed. David Bevington, Martin Butler, and Ian Donaldson, et al., 7 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012).

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the many people whose patience and support have made this book possible. Especial thanks to Arthur Marotti and Ken Jackson for encouraging me to undertake this project and to Ray Siemens and Erin Kelly for helping me see it through. Thanks also to Jaime Goodrich and James Purkis for their valuable insights. Im grateful to all whose suggestions helped shape and improve this material, including Kailin Wright, Sarah Milligan, Andie Silva, Renuka Gusain, and J. Matthew Huculak. Thanks also to Claire Bryony Williams, Joel Swann, Megan Heffernan, Heidi Craig, Miranda Lewis, Katie Will, and John Heggelund.

This book would not have been possible without funding from multiple sources, including the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria, the Wayne State University Graduate School, Wayne States College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the English Department at Wayne State, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Glasscock Humanities Centre at Texas A&M University. The fellowships, research awards, and grants from these sources allowed me to undertake archival research that was critical to this project. I would also like to thank the archivists and librarians at the British Library, the Bodleian Library, University College London, Queens College, the Houghton Library, Lambeth Palace Library, the National Library of Scotland, the University of Edinburgh, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Newberry Library, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office, University College London, William Salt Library, and the National Archives in Kew for their helpful and thoughtful assistance. Thanks also to Liesbeth Vijfhuizen and Jaime Goodrich for the assistance with translations from Dutch and Latin, respectively.

I would like to thank the editors of Shakespeare , Early Theatre , and New Ways of Looking at Old Texts for their permission to publish revisions of previous essays. An earlier version of chapter six, Proverbial Shakespeare: The print and manuscript circulation of extracts from Loves Labours Lost appeared in Shakespeare 7.1 (2011): 3555; sections in Chapter 1 have been adapted from New Contexts for Early Tudor Plays: William Briton, and Early Reader of Gorboduc Early Theatre 16.2 (2013): 197210 and All the Adulteries of Art: Margaret Bellasyss BL MS Add. 10309 in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts V: Papers of the Renaissance English Texts Society ed. Michael Denbo (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, forthcoming). Thanks also to the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, the Houghton Library and Harry Elkins Widener Collection at Harvard University, the British Library, and the Folger Shakespeare Library for their permission to print images.