Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England

Tiffany Stern is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan, Making Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Parts (with Simon Palfrey) and Documents of Performance in Early Modern England. She has co-edited a collection of essays with Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare’s Theatres and the Effects of Performance, and has edited King Leir, Sheridan’s The Rivals, Farquhar’s Recruiting Officer, and Brome’s Jovial Crew. She is general editor of New Mermaids and the Arden Fourth series.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on the TextNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart One: Documents Before Performance1 Writing a Play with Robert Daborne: Lucy Munro (King’s College, London, UK)2 A Sharers' Repertory: Holger Syme (University of Toronto, Canada)3 Parts and the Playscript: Seven Questions: James J. Marino (Cleveland State University, USA)4 Undocumented: Improvisation, Rehearsal and the Clown: Richard Preiss (University of Utah, USA)Part Two: Documents of Performance5 ‘Rethinking Prologues on Page and Stage’: Sonia Massai (King’s College, London) and Heidi Craig (The Folger Shakespeare Library, USA)6 Title-and Scene-Boards: The Largest, Shortest Documents: Matt Steggle (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)7 ‘What is a staged book? Books as ‘Actors’ in the Early Modern English Theatre’ (Sarah Wall-Randell, Wellesley College, USA)Part Three: Documents After Performance8 Flowers for English Speaking: Play Extracts and Conversation: András Kiséry (The City College of New York, USA) 9 Shakespearean Extracts and the Misrepresentation of the Archive: Laura Estill (Texas A and M University, USA)10 Typography After Performance: Claire M. L. Bourne (Pennsylvania State University, USA)11 Shakespeare the Balladmonger: Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK)Part Four: Documents Beyond Performance12 Lost Documents, Absent Documents, Forged Documents: Roslyn Knutson (University of Arkansas, USA) and David McInnis (University of Melbourne, Australia)13 Afterward: Peter Holland (Notre Dame University, USA)NotesBibliographyIndex

An invaluable contribution of Rethinking Theatrical Documents is its expansion of both what constitutes the stuff of plays and how such play stuffs were manipulated.