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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789540703321

Autore

Erne Lukas

Titolo

Shakespeare's modern collaborators / / Lukas Erne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2008

ISBN

1-4725-5538-4

1-283-12286-3

9786613122865

1-4411-6361-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 p.)

Collana

Shakespeare now!

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - Criticism, Textual

Drama - Editing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A study of Shakespeare's modern editors, suggesting that modern textual mediators can decisively shape and enable our response to Shakespeare's plays.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-124) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Establishing the text -- Framing the text -- Editing stage action -- Editing the real Lear.

Sommario/riassunto

Recent work in Shakespeare studies has brought to the forefront a variety of ways in which the collaborative nature of Shakespearean drama can be investigated: collaborative performance (Shakespeare and his fellow actors); collaborative writing (Shakespeare and his co-authors); collaborative textual production (Shakespeare and his transcribers and printers). What this leaves unaccounted for is the form of collaboration that affects more than any other our modern reading experience of Shakespeare's plays: what we read as Shakespeare now always comes to us in the form of a collaborative enterpri