August, Hannah, <br/><br/>
Playbooks and their readers in early modern England / 
Hannah August. 
 - New York, NY :  Routledge,  2022. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Material readings in early modern culture .
<br/><br/> This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed drama's most common format, the single-play quarto playbook, it interrogates what the form and content of these playbooks can tell us about who their earliest readers were, why they might have wanted to read contemporary commercial drama, and how they responded to the printed versions of plays that had initially been performed in the playhouses of early modern London. Focusing on professional plays printed in quarto between 1584 and 1660, the book juxtaposes the implications of material and paratextual evidence with analysis of historical traces of playreading in extant playbooks and manuscript commonplace books. In doing so, it presents more detailed and nuanced conclusions than have previously been enabled by studies focused on works by one author or on a single type of evidence. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>100056309X 9781003199748 1003199747 9781000563092 1000563111 9781000563115 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600<br/>Drama--Publishing--History--England--16th century.<br/>Books and reading--History--England--16th century.<br/>Book industries and trade--History--England--16th century.<br/>Marginalia--History--England--16th century.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>822/.309