Acknowledgments Note on Transcription and Editorial Practice List of Abbreviations List of Images List of Tables Introduction Chapter 1: The Rise of Dramatic Extracting: Extracting from English Plays, 1590-1642 Chapter 2: Dramatic Extracts from Elizabethan and Stuart Masques and Entertainments Chapter 3: Theatrical Nostalgia: Dramatic Miscellanies and the Closure of the Theatres, 1642-1660 Chapter 4: Re-Presenting and Re-Reading the Renaissance: Restoration Extracts from Renaissance Plays, 1660-1700 Chapter 5: Archbishop Sancroft, Play-Reader and Collector of Dramatic Extracts Chapter 6: Proverbial Shakespeare: The Print and Manuscript Circulation of Extracts from Love's Labour's Lost Conclusion Bibliography Index of Manuscript Shelfmarks Index
Laura Estill is assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University and editor of the World Shakespeare Bibliography.
With this book Laura Estill establishes herself as an important
scholar of book and manuscript history and an authority on the
reception of English Renaissance drama to 1700. . . .These
selections are most often found either in commonplace books or in
more heterogeneous miscellanies. Here Estill surveys that archive
as a guide for future researchers, also providing many
illuminating, exemplary, and thought-provoking analyses informed by
relevant scholarship. . . .This crucially important book delivers
what early modern reception studies needs most: more evidence. With
its command of primary and secondary sources and resourceful case
studies, it points the way for future scholarship and demonstrates
how that scholarship can proceed. * The Review of English Studies
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Laura Estill's new book enriches and extends scholarly interest in
early modern reading practices and shows how those practices can
help us understand dramatic texts of the era. Many of us were
introduced to early modern reading practices through the quirks of
Gabriel Harvey annotating his Livy; this left the unfortunate
impression that reading was an altogether idiosyncratic art. Laura
Estill's survey of dramatic extracts in the manuscripts of
seventeenth-century England provides a corrective to that very
singular picture. Using drama as her focusing genre, and examining
an impressive array of archival materials, Estill methodically
itemizes and evaluates the ways in which early readers recorded the
plays of early modern England.... It is one of the many virtues of
this admirable study that it encourages, even as it paves the way
for, future inquiry into its rich archive. * Early Theatre *
Laura Estill's Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English
Manuscripts presents numerous new and original arguments relevant
to historical manuscript and play scholarship. It is an essential
read for all scholars of Shakespearian and Restoration drama, and
of early scribal and print cultures of England.... Estill remains
true to the body of research documents at hand, never letting
barriers of access to physical material evidence at a distance
impede the progress of her research: it is hard to imagine all the
planning and detail-checking that Estill must have done to bring
together seamlessly analysis of so many handwritten
excerpt-miscellanies.... [This book] lays the groundwork for a new
method of studying and editing early modern texts. * SHARP News
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With this book Laura Estill establishes herself as an important
scholar of book and manuscript history and an authority on the
reception of English Renaissance drama to 1700. The book defines
and explores the most extensive archive pertinent to that reception
history, dramatic extracts.... This crucially important book
delivers what early modern reception studies needs most: more
evidence. With its command of primary and secondary sources and
resourceful case studies, it points the way for future scholarship
and demonstrates how that scholarship can proceed. * Oxford
Journals *
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