The Struggle for Shakespeare's Text
Twentieth-Century Editorial Theory and Practice
$74.73
- Paperback
332 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2013
Summary
We know Shakespeare’s writings only from imperfectly-made early editions, from which editors struggle to remove errors. The New Bibliography of the early twentieth century, refined with technological enhancements in the 1950s and 1960s, taught generations of editors how to make sense of the early editions of Shakespeare and use them to make modern editions. This book is the first complete history of the ideas that gave this movement its intellectual authority, and of the challenges to that au…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781107613157 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1107613159 |
| Author: | Gabriel Egan |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 332 |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 450g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
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‘An eminently readable guide to all the key concepts and tools in engaging with Shakespeare’s text.’ Around the Globe
About The Author
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan began his academic career at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London, where, in addition to teaching theatre history and running workshops on the Globe stage, he taught students to print on a replica wooden hand-press using the methods employed in Shakespeare’s time. He is the author of Shakespeare and Marx (2004), Green Shakespeare: From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism (2006) and The Edinburgh Critical Guide to Shakespeare (2007). He edited the play The Witches of Lancashire by Richard Brome and Thomas Heywood (2002), and co-edits the journals Theatre Notebook and Shakespeare.
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