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Article: From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
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- Shakespeare Studies
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- January 1, 2004
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From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England By Douglas A. Brooks Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
You know you're in for a fun ride when a book about the early modern printed drama announces in its preface that "Only long 'f' has been willfully modernized," so much so in fact that it has become an f. That said, this book is crammed full with lots of stuff: stuff about plays, stuff about printers and stationers and booksellers and printing, stuff about theaters and theatrical companies, and stuff about playmakers and authors. It seeks to trace the development of dramatic authorship from the publication of Sackville and ...