To speed up their writing,... «Shakespeare: A Life»
innashpitzberg6 сентября 2013To speed up their writing, most playwrights preferred to collaborate. For example among eighty-nine scripts that Henslowe of the Rose tells us about in detail, fifty-five are jointly written, and only thirty-four are single-author plays. 36 In a small collaborative team, a writer might specialize in working up a few kinds of action, scene, or situation.
An actor who could write a good play by himself was a rarity, but in Elizabeth's time he would not have seemed 'literary' or set apart. It is clear enough that Shakespeare coveted the normalcy of being a group member, just as his father for years, and at cost to himself, had served with his aldermanic brethren at Stratford. The group offered consoling protections. A measure of anonymity, a guise of ordinariness, in time suited Shakespeare well -- and he and his fellows would have thought of a play as a collective event. A script existed, above all, for performance, when it became a play-in-being. Indeed, their acceptance of the notion of a play as a group activity -- not as words on a page -- was one of the actors' most valuable legacies from the medieval theatre.
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