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- Title
New Contexts for Early Tudor Plays: William Briton, an Early Reader of Gorboduc.
- Authors
ESTILL, LAURA
- Abstract
By examining William Briton's extracts from Gorboduc in the Houghton manuscript (BL Add MS 61822), Estill shows how the political valences of Sackville and Norton's play changed in relation to the Elizabethan succession crisis. This essay explores the play's afterlife in Briton's commonplace book, contextualized as both a political guidebook and literary work. Briton's manuscript offers hitherto overlooked evidence of one early modern reader's response to Gorboduc. Ultimately, Estill contends that we should consider early Tudor drama in changing historical contexts and not as fixed works tied solely to an original moment of publication and performance.
- Subjects
BRITON, William; GORBODUC (Play : Norton &; Sackville); MANUSCRIPTS; NONBOOK materials; ARCHIVAL materials; EARLY modern English drama
- Publication
Early Theatre, 2013, Vol 16, Issue 2, p197
- ISSN
1206-9078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12745/et.16.2.12