"A Certain Text": Close Readings and Textual Studies on Shakespeare and Others in Honor of Thomas ClaytonThis collection takes its title from 'Romeo and Juliet' (4.1.21.) when, meeting Paris in Friar Lawrence's cell, Juliet muses, What must be shall be, and the Friar completes her line with, That's a certain text. Where text means a received truth both Friar Lawrence and Clayton are interested skeptics. This essays gathered here reflect this attitude, questioning received ideas about the activities to which Clayton has devoted his professional life- literary editing and the close reading of literary works. |
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... leaves with the series of editions printed from 1618 on- wards . The similarity is most apparent in the running titles , which appear in the form " The Comedy of Mucedorus " on both recto and verso of each leaf . Up to 1615 the form of ...
... leaves with the series of editions printed from 1618 on- wards . The similarity is most apparent in the running titles , which appear in the form " The Comedy of Mucedorus " on both recto and verso of each leaf . Up to 1615 the form of ...
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... leaves inserted in the Folger copy of the undated quarto ( Greg 151 ( o ) ) , that the 1618 edition must have derived many of its new variants from the lost predecessor represented by those leaves . The five leaves evidently belong to ...
... leaves inserted in the Folger copy of the undated quarto ( Greg 151 ( o ) ) , that the 1618 edition must have derived many of its new variants from the lost predecessor represented by those leaves . The five leaves evidently belong to ...
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... leaves us uncertain what the playwright really thinks of courtly pomp or of the big wars that make ambition virtue , Shakespeare's insistence on the main topic leaves no doubt that he considered a person's good name mortally vulnerable ...
... leaves us uncertain what the playwright really thinks of courtly pomp or of the big wars that make ambition virtue , Shakespeare's insistence on the main topic leaves no doubt that he considered a person's good name mortally vulnerable ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
Modernizing the Printed PlayText in Jacobean | 18 |
The Dram of Eale | 29 |
Copyright | |
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