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posted on 2006-04-26, 13:24 authored by Gabriel EganThe subtitle of our meeting, 'From Stage to Print in Early Modern England,
posits a movement in one direction, from performance to printed book. This seems
reasonable since, whereas modern actors usually start with a printed text of
some form, we are used to the idea that early modern actors started with
manuscripts and that printing followed performance. In fact, the capacity of a
printed play to originate fresh performances was something that the title-pages
and the preliminary matter of the first play printings in the early sixteenth
century made much of....
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