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The Actor as Playwright in Early Modern Drama. By Nora Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. 221. $60 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2004

James P. Bednarz
James P. Bednarz
Affiliation:
Long Island University
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Extract

This book, which focuses on the manner in which four Renaissance actor-playwrights justify their practice as dramatists, is both stimulating and exasperating, since it is based on a splendid idea insufficiently realized. The central premise of Nora Johnson's study is her contention that recent scholarship has tended to overemphasize Ben Jonson's model of “sovereign” authorship to the exclusion of those early modern English dramatists who acknowledged the communal and collaborative sources of their labor.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , May 2004 , pp. 151 - 153
Copyright
© 2004 The American Society for Theatre Research, Inc.

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