1. Dead theatre, printed relics; 2. Old Shakespeare; 3. Canonizing Beaumont and Fletcher; 4. Chronic conditions; 5. Morbid symptoms.
Heidi Craig demonstrates how dramatic and theatrical activity paradoxically thrived during the English theatre closures, 1642–1660.
Heidi Craig is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University, editor of the World Shakespeare Bibliography and co-editor of Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Huntington Library, Newberry Library, and Folger Shakespeare Library.
'Innovative in its adherence to subtle changes and continuations
between the 1640s, 50s, 60s and 70s, Heidi Craig's brilliant study
promises to reshape our thinking about early modern theatre history
and the emergence of the field we now know as Renaissance drama.
Drawing on detailed knowledge of book and theatre history, Craig
illustrates how the apparent death of theatre in 1642, and the
commercial practices of individual stationers, helped to shape both
the posthumous histories of Shakespeare, Jonson and Beaumont and
Fletcher, and ways in which drama was conceptualised in the late
seventeenth century and beyond.' Emma Depledge, Université de
Neuchâtel
'By focusing on the publication of drama during the closure of the
theatres, Heidi Craig has given us a fascinating and original
history of the English stage and its canonization as literature.
With meticulous research but always written in a lively style, this
book will be required reading for anyone interested in Early Modern
English drama.' Zachary Lesser, University of Pennsylvania
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