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Article: Some recent dramatic manuscript studies.
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- Shakespeare Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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THE STUDY OF EXTANT English Renaissance poetry, prose, and dramatic manuscripts is once again flourishing. Spurred on by the frequent reluctance of "history of the book" scholars to grapple with the role of manuscripts in the transmission, and history, of a text, manuscript scholars are again insisting on the primacy of manuscripts in textual and authorial production. This resurgence, especially in dramatic manuscript studies, can be seen in recent publications as well as in the inauguration of annual conferences on Manuscript and their Makers in the English Renaissance at the University of Reading in the last two years.
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