Before the beginning; after the end: when did plays start and stop?

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  • Tiffany Stern University of Birmingham

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2176148564648

Keywords:

Primeira modernidade, Encenação, Epitexto, Textos teatrais

Abstract

Este ensaio explora os eventos encenatórios que aconteciam antes que a performance da peça iniciava bem como os eventos de cena que aconteciam depois do final da peça teatral. Indaga se tais elementos, que Gerard Genette chama de ‘epitextos’, são importantes o bastante para a encenação, o texto a edição e/ou sentido como partes constituintes do drama enquanto tal. Concentrando-se sobre o toque de trombeta que anunciava o ‘início’ de uma peça, sobre a oração, a música e o clowning, assim como sobre o anúncio que se seguia ao final da ‘peça’, concebida de modo amplo. Deveriam tais elementos ser adicionados aos textos das peças (playtexts)? O que é, em última instância, uma ‘peça teatral’, e quando de fato ela inicia e quando ela termina?

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Author Biography

Tiffany Stern, University of Birmingham

Tiffany Stern, FBA, is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Her books are Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (2000), Making Shakespeare (2004), Shakespeare in Parts (with Simon Palfrey, 2007) and Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (2009). She has edited 5 plays, put together 2 scholarly editions, and written over 60 chapters and articles on sixteenth- to eighteenth-century drama, Shakespeare, theatre history, book history, and editing. General editor of New Mermaids Plays and Arden Shakespeare 4, her current projects are a book on Shakespeare’s product placement and an Arden 4 edition of The Tempest. She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2019.

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Stern, T. (2022). Before the beginning; after the end: when did plays start and stop?. Letras, 13–38. https://doi.org/10.5902/2176148564648 (Original work published March 11, 2021)

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Edição Especial - 2/2020: Teatro Elisabetano e Jacobino: estudos textuais, teatrais e críticos

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