List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
Notes on Contributors
IntroductionPart One: Documents Before Performance
1 Writing a Play with Robert Daborne: Lucy Munro (King’s College, London, UK)
2 A Sharers' Repertory: Holger Syme (University of Toronto, Canada)
3 Parts and the Playscript: Seven Questions: James J. Marino (Cleveland State University, USA)
4 Undocumented: Improvisation, Rehearsal and the Clown: Richard Preiss (University of Utah, USA)
Part Two: Documents of Performance
5 ‘Rethinking Prologues on Page and Stage’: Sonia Massai (King’s College, London) and Heidi Craig (The Folger Shakespeare Library, USA)
6 Title-and Scene-Boards: The Largest, Shortest Documents: Matt Steggle (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
7 ‘What is a staged book? Books as ‘Actors’ in the Early Modern English Theatre’ (Sarah Wall-Randell, Wellesley College, USA)
Part Three: Documents After Performance
8 Flowers for English Speaking: Play Extracts and Conversation: András Kiséry (The City College of New York, USA)
9 Shakespearean Extracts and the Misrepresentation of the Archive: Laura Estill (Texas A and M University, USA)
10 Typography After Performance: Claire M. L. Bourne (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
11 Shakespeare the Balladmonger: Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK)
Part Four: Documents Beyond Performance
12 Lost Documents, Absent Documents, Forged Documents: Roslyn Knutson (University of Arkansas, USA) and David McInnis (University of Melbourne, Australia)
13 Afterward: Peter Holland (Notre Dame University, USA)
Notes
Bibliography
Index