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Zusatztext The collection … is an ideal reference work for university students as well as early and established scholars. … The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies offers an important historical moment, in this case the current state of Shakespearean textual criticism. The collection will be of immeasurable benefit to readers. Informationen zum Autor Lukas Erne is Professor of English Literature at the University of Geneva. He is author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (Cambridge, 2003). He has taught at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, at the University of Neuchâtel and, as Visiting Professor, at Yale University. Vorwort This is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and textual studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on all the major areas of current research plus resources to aid research. Zusammenfassung The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and textual studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on all the major areas of current research, notably the Shakespeare manuscripts; the printed text and paratext in Shakespeare’s early playbooks and poetry books; Shakespeare’s place in the early modern book trade; Shakespeare’s early readers, users, and collectors; the constitution and evolution of the Shakespeare canon from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century; Shakespeare’s editors from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century; and the modern editorial reproduction of Shakespeare. The Handbook also devotes separate chapters to new directions and developments in research in the field, specifically in the areas of digital editing and of authorship attribution methodologies. In addition, the Companion contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A-Z of key terms and concepts, a guide to research methods and problems, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field, and a substantial annotated bibliography. The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a reference work aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and libraries, a guide to beginning or developing research in the field, an essential companion for all those interested in Shakespeare and textual studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsList of TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction Lukas Erne ( University of Geneva, Switzerland) Part 1: Research Methods and Problems 1.1 Shakespeare and ‘Textual Studies’: Evidence, Scale, Periodization and Access Claire M. L. Bourne (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Part 2: Current Research and Issues 2.1 The Shakespeare Manuscripts Cathy L. Shrank (University of Sheffield, UK) and Paul Werstine (King’s University College, UK) 2.2 The Early Printed Texts of Shakespeare John Jowett (University of Birmingham, UK) 2.3 Shakespeare’s Early Modern Books: Printing, Paratext and Text Emma Smith (Hertford College Oxford, UK) 2.4 Shakespeare in the Early Modern Book Trade Marta Straznicky (Queen’s University, Canada) 2.5 Shakespeare’s Early Readers and Users: Annotation, Commonplacing, Collecting Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada) 2.6 The Shakespeare Canon from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK) 2.7 Shakespeare’s Editors from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century Andrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 2.8 The Modern Editing of Shakespeare: The Text Margaret Jane Kidnie (University of Western Ontario, Canada) 2.9 The Modern Editing of Shakespeare: The Apparatus Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University Chicag...