Shakespeare and Textual Studies

by Margaret Jane Kidnie (Editor), Sonia Massai (Editor)

Overview

Shakespeare and Textual Studies gathers contributions from the leading specialists in the fields of manuscript and textual studies, book history, editing, and digital humanities to provide a comprehensive reassessment of how manuscript, print and digital practices have shaped the body of works that we now call 'Shakespeare'. This cutting-edge collection identifies the legacies of previous theories and places special emphasis on the most recent developments in the editing of Shakespeare since the 'turn to materialism' in the late twentieth century. Providing a wide-ranging overview of current approaches and debates, the book explores Shakespeare's poems and plays in light of new evidence, engaging scholars, editors, and book historians in conversations about the recovery of early composition and publication, and the ongoing appropriation and transmission of Shakespeare's works through new technologies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781009045490
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/10/2021
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Margaret Jane Kidnie is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation and her edition of Philip Stubbes: The Anatomie of Abuses won Honorable Mention from the MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions. She has also edited Jonson for Oxford University Press and her edition of Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness was published in 2015. Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama, which she co-edited with Lukas Erne, was nominated Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement.

Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at King's College London. She has published widely in the fields of Shakespeare Textual Studies and the Editing of Shakespeare, including The Rise of the Editor (Cambridge, 2007), an Arden Early Modern Drama edition of John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (2011) and an edition of Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 (Cambridge, 2014). She has also contributed to refereed journals, such as Shakespeare Survey and Studies in English Literature, and to collections of essays on the textual transmission of Shakespeare.

Table of Contents

Introduction Margaret Jane Kidnie and Sonia Massai; Part I. Scripts and Manuscripts: 1. Playwriting in Shakespeare's time: authorship, collaboration, and attribution Heather Hirschfeld; 2. Ralph Crane and Edward Knight Paul Werstine; 3. Shakespeare's strayng manuscripts James Purkis; Part II. Making Books; Building Reputations: 4. The mixed fortunes of Shakespeare in print Sonia Massai; 5. 'To London all'? Mapping Shakespeare in print, 1593–8 Helen Smith; 6. Shakespeare as leading playwright in print, 1598–1608/9 Alan B. Farmer; 7. Shakespeare between pamphlet and book Zachary Lesser and Peter Stallybrass; 8. The canonization of Shakespeare in print: 1623 Emma Smith; Part III. From Print to Manuscript: 9. Commonplacing readers Laura Estill; 10. Annotating and transcribing for the theatre – Shakespeare's early modern reader revisers at work Jean-Christophe Mayer; 11. Shakespeare and the collection: reading beyond readers' marks Jeffrey Todd Knight; 12. Encoding as editing as reading Alan Galey; 13. Going postal; or, performing postprint Shakespeare W. B. Worthen; Part IV. Editorial Legacies: 14. Theatre editions Peter Holland; 15. Editing Shakespeare by pictures Keir Elam; 16. Format and readerships Andrew Murphy; 17. A man who needs no introduction Leah S. Marcus; 18. Emendation and the editorial reconfiguration of Shakespeare Lukas Erne; Part V. Editorial Practices: 19. Full pricks and great p's: spellings, punctuation, accidentals John Jowett; 20. Divided Shakespeare Alan C. Dessen; 21. Shakespeare's strange tongues Matthew Dimmock; 22. Before the beginning; after the end: when did plays start and stop? Tiffany Stern; Part VI. Apparatus and the Fashioning of Knowledge: 23. Framing Shakespeare: introductions and commentary in critical editions of the plays Jill L. Levenson; 24. Editorial memory Eric Rasmussen; 25. Shakespeare as network David Weinberger.

Editorial Reviews

'This collection is most insightful - essential reading for editors and textual scholars. Kidnie and Massai assemble the very best Shakespeareans to examine crucial debates about the origins, production and subsequent uses of Shakespeare's texts.' Eugene Giddens, Anglia Ruskin University

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