A concise companion to Shakespeare and the text

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Shakespeare's works were among the very first English secular texts to be edited. The long history of adapting them has positioned them as a catalyst for theories of editing and textuality. A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and pub...

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Other Authors: Murphy, Andrew (Andrew D.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Series:Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism, Textual.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Bibliography.
Transmission of texts > History.
Drama > Editing > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : what happens in Hamlet? / Andrew Murphy
  • The publishing trade in Shakespeare's time / Helen Smith
  • Reading and authorship : the circulation of Shakespeare 1590-1619 / Peter Stallybrass and Roger Chartier
  • Shakespeare writ small : early single editions of Shakespeare's plays / Thomas L. Berger
  • The life of the first folio in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Anthony James West
  • The birth of the editor / Andrew Murphy
  • The science of editing / Paul Werstine
  • Editing Shakespeare in a postmodern age / Leah S. Marcus
  • Shakespeare and the electronic text / Michael Best
  • Working with the text : editing in practice / David Bevington
  • Working with the texts : differential readings / Sonia Massai
  • Mapping Shakespeare's contexts : doing things with databases / Neil Rhodes.

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