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TEXTS, TOOLS AND THINGS: AN APPROACH TO MANUSCRIPTS OF RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN'S "THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL"
Ist Teil von
The Review of English studies, 2015-09, Vol.66 (276), p.723-743
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article engages with anthropology and the study of material cultures, as well as textual and theatrical studies, to investigate a manuscript (Harvard Thr 5.1), a theatrical version of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal. Rather than examine the manuscript for evidence of Sheridan's contribution, the analysis focuses on the ways in which the document discloses its own history. The manuscript, which was created from two separate texts, reveals much about the nature of Georgian theatre and its practices. Although theatre workers were careful and precise, creating a mostly accurate version of Sheridan's celebrated comedy, successive amendments and additions indicate the improvised and social nature of theatrical production. To investigate this complex layering of skills and purposes, the manuscript is considered not only as a text but as a concrete artefact, as an object and consequently as a tool for creative and collective labour. This methodological turn enables a consideration of the artisanal, mediated, and targeted work of theatre professionals. The recovery of the efforts of theatre works raises wider questions about the relationship between authority and practice when considering theatrical manuscripts.