A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3205-6
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture

A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole.
- The first single-volume book to provide an accessible and authoritative introduction to Shakespearean bibliographic studies
- Includes a helpful introduction, notes on Shakespeare’s texts, and a useful bibliography
- Contributors represent both leading and emerging scholars in the field
- Represents an unparalleled resource for both students and faculty

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murphy, Andrew R

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgments x

Note on Texts xi

Introduction: What Happens in Hamlet? 1
Andrew Murphy

Part I Histories of the Books 15

1 The Publishing Trade in Shakespeare’s Time 17
Helen Smith

2 Reading and Authorship: The Circulation of Shakespeare 1590–1619 35
Peter Stallybrass and Roger Chartier

3 Shakespeare Writ Small: Early Single Editions of Shakespeare’s Plays 57
Thomas L. Berger

4 The Life of the First Folio in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 71
Anthony James West

Part II Theories of Editing 91

5 The Birth of the Editor 93
Andrew Murphy

6 The Science of Editing 109
Paul Werstine

7 Editing Shakespeare in a Postmodern Age 128
Leah S. Marcus

8 Shakespeare and the Electronic Text 145
Michael Best

Part III Practicalities 163

9 Working with the Text: Editing in Practice 165
David Bevington

10 Working with the Texts: Differential Readings 185
Sonia Massai

11 Mapping Shakespeare’s Contexts: Doing Things with Databases 204
Neil Rhodes

Afterword 221
John Drakakis

Bibliography 239

Index 258

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Murphy is Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing (2003), the editor of The Renaissance Text: Theory, Editing, Textuality (2000), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Scotland (2004).