Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England explains how texts written specifically for theatrical performance were transformed into reading texts by the people involved in the early modern book trade. It argues that experiments with typographic arrangements in playbooks across almost two centuries (1490s-1709) helped readers recognize, navigate, and read these texts as plays. This is the first book to study playbook typography in depth and, as a result, offers new ways of reading the early texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries that will have strong implications for future study, teaching, and editing of plays.