Documents of Shakespearean Performance:
Stage, Page, and Manuscript in Early Modern England

“Early Modern Play Manuscripts and Their Licensing”
Prof. Gabriel Egan (De Montfort University)

21 January 2013
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Room 234
Institute of English Studies
Senate House
London

This paper will survey surviving early modern play manuscripts and the problems of their classification. What can the manuscripts tell us about the activities of the Masters of the Revels? Are they, perhaps, evidence for a licensing regime that never quite managed to fulfil the functions it was created for?

Admission is free and all are warmly invited to attend
http://events.sas.ac.uk/ies/seminars/316/

Documents of Shakespearean Performance: Stage, Page, and Manuscript in Early Modern England (series)
Since the publication of Tiffany Stern’s ground-breaking Shakespeare in Parts (2007) and Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (2009), the question of how Shakespeare’s plays were transmitted from manuscript to print has re-emerged as central to discussions of Shakespeare and the printed book. These seminars will feature leading and emerging scholars in Shakespeare studies and focus attention on the impact that the “new” theatre history has had on how we now understand the origins and histories of early printed play texts.