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; from plays. As this under-examined archival evidence shows; play readers and playgoers viewed plays as malleable and modular texts to be altered; appropriated; and; most importantly; used. These records provide information that is not available in other forms about the popularity and importance of early modern plays; the reasons plays appealed to their audiences; and the ideas in plays that most interested audiences. Tracing the course of dramatic extracting from the earliest stages in the 1590s; through the prolific manuscript circulation at the universities; to the closure and reopening of the theatres; Estill gathers these microhistories to create a comprehensive overview of seventeenth-century dramatic extracts and the culture of extracting from plays. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching; Reading; Changing Plays explores new archival evidence (from John Miltonrsquo;s signature to unpublished university plays) while also analyzing the popularity of perennial favorites such as Shakespearersquo;s The Tempest. The study of dramatic extracts is the study of particulars: particular readers; particular manuscripts; particular plays or masques; particular historic moments. As D. F. McKenzie puts it; ldquo;different readers [bring] the text to life in different ways.rdquo; By providing careful analyses of these rich source texts; this book shows how active play-viewing and play-reading (that is; extracting) ultimately led to changing the plays themselves; both through selecting and manipulating the extracts and positioning the plays in new contexts.
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