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An introduction to the foundations of the text of Shakespeare that examines Shakespeare's writing in the environment of the theatre and the printing of the earliest surviving texts. This revised edition includes a new chapter on digital text, digital editing, and their interface with the traditional media.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Author and Collaborator
- 2: Theatre
- 3: The Material Book
- 4: The First Folio
- 5: Mapping the Text
- 6: Emendation and Versification
- 7: Modernization and Stage Directions
- 8: The Digital Text
- Appendix 1. A Passage from Hamlet in Q1, Q2, and F1
- Appendix 2. Shakespeare in Early Editions and Manuscripts
- Glossary of Key Terms
- Notes
- Further Reading
About the author
John Jowett is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He is General Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare, a member of the editorial boards of Arden Early Modern Drama and the Malone Society, an Associate General Editor of the Oxford Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, and an editor of the original Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works. He has edited Richard III and Timon of Athens for the Oxford Shakespeare series, and Sir Thomas More for the Arden Shakespeare. He has published widely on textual culture and textual theory.
Summary
An introduction to the foundations of the text of Shakespeare that examines Shakespeare's writing in the environment of the theatre and the printing of the earliest surviving texts. This revised edition includes a new chapter on digital text, digital editing, and their interface with the traditional media.
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Emphasising the multifaceted nature of the Shakespearean text, this book written by a leading expert in the field proves both illuminating and useful, and offers valuable insights into early modern editions as well as modern printed and digital ones. While it will be most helpful to students interested in Shakespeare and in textual studies -- especially to post-graduate students specialising in the early modern period -- it will also provide the general readers with much-needed clarifications on the authorship of Shakespeare's texts thanks to contextually-based examples.
