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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817370503321

Autore

Erne Lukas

Titolo

Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist / / Lukas Erne, University of Geneva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-35782-9

1-107-23733-5

1-107-34445-X

1-107-34920-6

1-107-34820-X

1-107-34570-7

1-139-34244-4

1-107-34195-7

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 313 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Authors and readers - England - History - 16th century

Authors and readers - England - History - 17th century

English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Style

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The legitimation of printed playbooks in Shakespeare's time -- The making of "Shakespeare" -- Shakespeare and the publication of his plays (I): the late sixteenth century -- Shakespeare and the publication of his plays (II): the early seventeenth century -- The players' alleged opposition to print -- Why size matters: "the two hours' traffic of our stage" and the length of Shakespeare's plays -- Editorial policy and the length of Shakespeare's plays -- "Bad" quartos and their origins: Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Hamlet -- Theatricality, literariness, and the texts of Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Hamlet -- Appendixes: A. The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in print, 1584-1623 -- B. Heminge and Condell's "Stolne, and surreptitious copies" and the Pavier quartos -- C. Shakespeare and the circulation of dramatic manuscripts.

Sommario/riassunto

Now in a new edition, Lukas Erne's groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare, apart from being a playwright who wrote theatrical texts



for the stage, was also a literary dramatist who produced reading texts for the page. Examining the evidence from early published playbooks, Erne argues that Shakespeare wrote many of his plays with a readership in mind and that these 'literary' texts would have been abridged for the stage because they were too long for performance. The variant early texts of Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Hamlet are shown to reveal important insights into the different media for which Shakespeare designed his plays. This revised and updated edition includes a new and substantial preface that reviews and intervenes in the controversy the study has triggered and lists reviews, articles and books which respond to or build on the first edition.