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TY  - BOOK
PB  - Cambridge University Press
SE  - x + 246 pp.
CY  - Cambridge
ID  - aaam473
T1  - Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars
AU  - Craig, Heidi
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Investigates publication, performance and reception of early modern drama during English Civil Wars and Interregnum, during English theater prohibition of 1642 to 1660. Examines sharp decline of full-length Shakespeare publication in 1640s and 1650s, arguing that, given absence of newly-written plays on stage, dramatic stationers focused on publishing "new" (that is, previously unprinted) plays, and Shakesepare's frequently-printed plays were too "old" to appel to novelty-obsessed stationers and consumers. Attends to Interregnum circulation of Shakespeare in abbreviated formats of drolls, commonplace books, and contemporary allusions to his works, characters and to Shakespeare as author. 
ER  -