“Precious Few”: English Manuscript Playbooks
“Precious Few”: English Manuscript Playbooks
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《珍贵的少数》：英文手稿剧本
DOI：
10.1111/b.9780631218784.1999.00026.x
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发表时间：
2018
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通讯作者：
William B. Long
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作者：
William B. Long
我把现存的英语剧本手稿称为“珍贵的少数”，有两种含义：“珍贵的少数”，因为在3000本左右的剧本手稿中，只有18本幸存下来，这少数的珍贵之处在于，它们构成了我们了解剧作家交给演出公司的手稿类型以及演员在将剧本投入生产时如何修改这些手稿的主要储存库。因此，这些手稿不仅是古董珍品；它们是戏剧研究人员研究舞台和制作的主要资料来源，也是向编辑透露剧本在剧院可能发生的情况的主要资料来源。
I refer to surviving English manuscript playbooks as Precious Few“ in two senses: there are precious few” of them, because only eighteen survive out of probably 3,000, and these few are precious because they comprise our chief repository for knowing what kinds of manuscripts playwrights delivered to the playing companies and for finding out how the players altered these manuscripts in putting plays into production. These manuscripts thus are not merely antiquarian curiosities; they comprise the major source for theater researchers into staging and production and for revealing to editors what was likely to happen to a manuscript in the playhouse.