A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text

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Andrew R. Murphy
John Wiley & Sons, Mar 8, 2010 - Literary Criticism - 280 pages
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 studies
  • Includes a helpful introduction, notes on Shakespeare’s texts, and a useful bibliography
  • Contributors represent both leading and emerging scholars in the field
  • Represents an unparalleled resource for both students and faculty
 

Contents

The Publishing Trade in Shakespeares Time
17
The Circulation
35
Early Single Editions
57
The Life of the First Folio in the Seventeenth
71
The Birth of the Editor
93
The Science of Editing
109
Editing Shakespeare in a Postmodern Age
128
Shakespeare and the Electronic Text
145
Editing in Practice
165
Differential Readings
185
Doing Things
204
Afterword
221
Bibliography
239
Index
258

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About the author (2010)

Andrew Murphy is Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing (2003), the editor of The Renaissance Text: Theory, Editing, Textuality (2000), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Scotland (2004).

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