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Abstract

This essay deals with different levels of stage directions to be found in both manuscripts and printed chapbooks of Portuguese Theatre from the 16th to the very early 19th centuries and the challenges they present to the modern editor. They range from the total absence of explicit directions to the multiple register of the same indication repeated in each actor’s paper of the play, and even to their addition by later editors. This chapter analyses several cases that may be considered paradigmatic of the difficulties to be found when editing those texts, setting different degrees of intervention.


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Submitted: July 30, 2018 | Accepted: Sept. 4, 2018 | Published Dec. 11, 2018 | Language: es

Keywords Producing the stage • Portuguese theatre • Editor’s choices • Actors’ roles • Stage copies

Copyright © 2018 José Camões. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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