TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hume,Robert D.
TI  - Paratext printed with new English plays, 1660-1700
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections,
SN  - 9781009270502 (ebook)
AV  - Z242.P37 H86 2023
U1  - 002.0941 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Paratext
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - English drama
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Dec 2023); Open Access
N2  - This Element Paratext printed with new English plays has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby contributing substantially to our understanding of larger patterns of generic evolution across two centuries. The presence (or absence) of twelve elements needs to be systematically surveyed. (1) Attribution of authorship; (2) generic designation; (3) performance auspices; (4) government license authorizing publication; (5) dedication; (6) prefaces of various sorts; (7a-b-c) list of characters (three types); (8) actors' names (sometimes with descriptive characterizations-very helpful for deducing intended authorial interpretation); (9) location of action; (10) prologue and epilogue for first production. Surveying these results, we can see that much of the generic evolution traceable in the later seventeenth century gets undone during the eighteenth-a reversal largely attributable to the Licensing Act of 1737. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009270502
ER  -