Abstract:Early modern character lists, frequently overlooked but vital paratexts, have a manifest ability to shape readers' understandings of the plot and characters. This article traces their origins from performance-oriented guides in Tudor interludes, through the para-textual scarcity of playbooks associated with the emergence of professional theaters in the 1580s and 1590s, to their reinvention as maps of fictional social spaces in Stuart and Restoration drama. It argues that, far from being mechanical lists, dramatis personae offered authors a space to revisit their characters and in this bear evidence of authorial self-reflection; furthermore, it evaluates lists provided by stationers as early editorial responses to the dramatic texts. The trends promoted by authors and stationers, however, did not go uncontested by readers who readily appropriated character lists to better suit their needs. Considering the influence of these agents, the article examines the evolution of character lists in the context of publishing and theatrical enterprises, as well as that of turbulent social changes in the seventeenth century.

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早期现代印刷戏剧中的戏剧人物角色解读戏剧人物。

摘要：早期的现代字符列表，经常被忽略但至关重要的副文本，具有明显的能力来塑造读者对情节和字符的理解。本文追溯其起源于都铎王朝插曲中的以表演为导向的指南，与1580年代和1590年代专业剧院的兴起相关的超文本剧本的稀缺性，以及它们在斯图尔特和恢复戏剧中被虚构为虚构的社会地图的方式。文章认为，戏剧人物角色绝不是机械清单，而是为作者提供了一个重新审视其角色的空间，并以此证明了作者的自我反省。此外，它还评估了文具商提供的清单，作为对戏剧文本的早期编辑回应。但是，作者和文具商推动的趋势是 读者可以随时使用字符列表来更好地满足他们的需求，这并非毫无争议。考虑到这些因素的影响，本文考察了出版和戏剧企业中角色列表的演变以及十七世纪动荡的社会变革。