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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143317903321

Titolo

A concise companion to Shakespeare and the text [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andrew Murphy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2007

ISBN

1-78268-583-9

1-280-93255-4

9786610932559

1-4051-7743-8

0-470-75789-2

1-4051-8148-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

MurphyAndrew

Disciplina

822.3/3

822.33

Soggetti

Transmission of texts - History

Drama - Editing - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-257) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 studiesIncludes a helpful introduction, notes on Shakespeare's texts, and a useful bibliographyContributors represent both leading and emerging scholars in the fieldRepresents an unparalleled resource for both students and faculty</u