Changing the script: a typology of Dutch theatre manuscripts in the Southern Low Countries, and the interaction between manuscript and print (17th-18th centuries)

Abstract: Because of an almost exclusive attention to literature in print, early modern manu-scripts have until now failed to attract the scholarly attention they deserve. Literary histori-ans of the Early Modern period have only very recently turned to manuscripts, studying for example how they functioned within circles of collective readership (e.g. rhetoricians), how they materialise social networks (e.g. alba amicorum), or provide opportunity to appropriate and alter canonical texts for individual audiences (e.g. chronicles). A genre that so far has not attracted as much attention in Dutch... Mehr ...