A concise companion to Shakespeare and the text
"Shakespeare's works were among the first English texts to be edited. The history of adapting them has positioned them as a catalyst for theories of editing and textuality. This book introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare's works, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole."--Electronic Library
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Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Note on Texts. Introduction: What Happens in Hamlet? (Andrew Murphy). Part I Histories of the Books. 1 The Publishing Trade in Shakespeare's Time (Helen Smith). 2 Reading and Authorship: The Circulation of Shakespeare 1590-1619 (Peter Stallybrass and Roger Chartier). 3 Shakespeare Writ Small: Early Single Editions of Shakespeare's Plays (Thomas L. Berger). 4 The Life of the First Folio in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Anthony James West). Part II Theories of Editing. 5 The Birth of the Editor (Andrew Murphy). 6 The Science of Editing (Paul Werstine). 7 Editing Shakespeare in a Postmodern Age (Leah S. Marcus). 8 Shakespeare and the Electronic Text (Michael Best). Part III Practicalities. 9 Working with the Text: Editing in Practice (David Bevington). 10 Working with the Texts: Differential Readings (Sonia Massai). 11 Mapping Shakespeare's Contexts: Doing Things with Databases (Neil Rhodes). Afterword (John Drakakis). Bibliography. Index.
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