This is an authoritative intervention in bibliography and literary history, as well as being a hymn to the craft of early modern printing. * Alice Leonard, Times Literary Supplement * This is an unequivocally important book that is underpinned by exemplary research. * Ben Higgins, The Library 23.2 * Just as learning a new word causes one to see it everywhere, Claire M. L. Bourne's Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England spotlights the printed symbols and complex textual arrangements that pervade early modern printed plays, but which modern scholars and editors usually overlook or misunderstand, demonstrating their importance for making theatrical forms legible as dramatic texts for reading. After reading this meticulously researched, highly informative, and wide reaching monograph, scholars and editors will appreciate early modern playbooks in a new light: you cannot unsee Typographies of Performance's indelible insights, nor would you ever want to. * Heidi Craig, Philological Quarterly 100.2 * Bourne's book succeeds in defamiliarising typography to the point that we can appreciate its workings anew, not as a barrier to the study of early modern drama but a bridge. * Derek Dunne, Renaissance Studies 36.3 * Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is a model of excellent scholarship: predicated on impressive research, it outlines important arguments in clear and graceful writing. * Laura Estill, Seventeenth-Century News * This capacious, thoughtful work allows readers to conceive of the possibilities of new scholarship in the history of early modern English playbooks. Because Bourne regards the members of the early English book trade with grace, she releases them from the burden of habitual faultiness. She initiates a truly fantastic way of approaching playbooks that prioritizes 'readerly access to these forms of theatricality rather than foreclosing the chance to experience their effects'. * Brandi K. Adams, Early Theatre *
