Screen LibraryA concise companion to Shakespeare and the text
"Shakespeare's works were among the first English texts to be edited. The history of adapting them has positioned them as a catalyst for theories of editing and textuality. This book introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare's works, and e...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470757895 |
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"Shakespeare's works were among the first English texts to be edited. The history of adapting them has positioned them as a catalyst for theories of editing and textuality. This book introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare's works, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole."--Electronic Library. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xi, 263 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-257) and index. |
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9781405181488 (electronic bk.) 1405181486 (electronic bk.) 140513528X (alk. paper) 9781405135283 (alk. paper) 9781405177436 1405177438 9780470757895 0470757892 |
| Index Number: | PR3071 |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
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Introduction : what happens in Hamlet? / The publishing trade in Shakespeare's time / Reading and authorship : the circulation of Shakespeare 1590-1619 / Shakespeare writ small : early single editions of Shakespeare's plays / The life of the first folio in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / The birth of the editor / The science of editing / Editing Shakespeare in a postmodern age / Shakespeare and the electronic text / Working with the text : editing in practice / Working with the texts : differential readings / Mapping Shakespeare's contexts : doing things with databases / |