Marta Straznicky is Professor of English at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 1550-1700.
The Book of the Play is a collection of essays that examines early modern drama in the context of book history. Focusing on the publication, marketing, and readership of plays opens fresh perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance and more broadly between drama and the public sphere. Marta Straznicky's introduction offers a survey of approaches to the history of play reading in this period, and the collectio...
