Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays

by Laura Estill

Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts (selections from plays and masques) into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays is the first to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644530465
• ISBN13: 9781644530467
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher