I'm on strike again. Depending on how things go, I may not teach another class until the end of October. Depressing, for many reasons. The University of Edinburgh continues to press ahead with massive job cuts, coming off the back of the largescale programme closures announced earlier this month.
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Chapter 12
Frames without Pictures
Shirley's Prologues and Epilogues in Poems &c (1646)
Laura Estill
"What do you call a dramatic paratexts without a play?" asks Helen Smith her review of Thomas L. Berger and Sonia Massai's important reference work, Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642. [text continues]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:omcsjedjhwgwwylqwycmgkcj/bafkreifyagjcaagvviqgfqnuz624kurwyoez2n3lkma3zy7hxwfjvfr64u)