Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha - Negotiating the Boundaries of the Dramatic Canon

List of contents

Introduction: the idea of Apocrypha; 1. Canonising the Apocrypha; 2. The Apocrypha in rep; 3. Defining 'Shakespeare'; 4. Apocryphising the canon; Epilogue: an apocryphal identity; Appendix; Works cited; Index.

About the author

Peter Kirwan is Assistant Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the University of Nottingham. He is the co-editor of Shakespeare and the Digital World (with Christie Carson, Cambridge, 2014) and Associate Editor of William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (2013). His work has appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin, Literature Compass, Philological Quarterly and many other journals and collections. He sits on the editorial board of Early Theatre and reviews editions for Shakespeare Survey.

Summary

This book explores how, and on what grounds, plays have been excluded from the Shakespeare canon over the past four centuries. Combining approaches from varying fields of interest, it will appeal to researchers and graduate students in Shakespeare studies, early modern drama, theatre history, book history and attribution studies.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Kirwan, Peter (University of Nottingham) Kirwan, Kirwan Peter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781107479982
• ISBN: 978-1-107-47998-2
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights