Naslov
Scrap Philology: Waste Paper, Foul Papers, and the Materiality of Playwriting
(Filologija otpada: otpadni papir, autorski rukopisi i materijalnost dramskog pisanja)

Autori
Lupić, Ivan ; Teramura, Misha

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, ostalo, znanstveni

Skup
Histories, Theories, and Uses of Waste Paper in Early Modern England

Mjesto i datum
Oxford, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 15.06.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Philology ; waste paper ; dramatic writing ; early modern theater

Sažetak
While early modern books provide ample evidence of manuscript and printed sheets repurposed for uses far different from those imagined by their original creators, some surviving archival material challenges the idea of “waste paper” as a product of non-authorial agency. Our presentation examines a particularly suggestive example in the theatrical archives of Dulwich College: a letter addressed to Philip Henslowe written on the back of a fragment of dramatic verse in the hand of John Day. Contextualizing this scrap of paper within the Admiral’s Men’s commissioning and performance schedule, we argue that the verses represent Day’s first draft of a speech from a play he was in the process of writing. However, unlike the vast majority of extant authorial dramatic manuscripts, the Day scrap is remarkable for its brevity and its untidy, almost illegible appearance. We propose that Day was composing these verses fully aware that the paper on which he was writing would become waste, as indeed it soon did. In contrast to the recent skeptical accounts of “foul papers” as a distinct category in the English dramatic archive, we argue that the Day scrap constitutes a neglected piece of evidence about the “foulness” of authorial drafts, the status of the paper on which they were inscribed, and the institutional reasons why more examples do not survive today.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Povijest, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti, Kazališna umjetnost (scenske i medijske umjetnosti), Književnost

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