Shakespeare, Malone and the Problems of Chronology

In 1778 Edmond Malone published his first contribution to Shakespeare scholarship, An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in which the Plays Attributed to Shakspeare were Written. He revised and republished it in 1790 and began a further revision of it which was printed posthumously in 1821. This Element will be on the three versions of Malone's Attempt and the way they created, shaped, focused, directed, and misdirected, our idea of the chronology and sequence of Shakespeare's plays. By showing Malone's impressive, fallible choices, adopted or adapted by later editors, it reveals how current Shakespeare editions are, in good and bad ways, Malonian at heart.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. External Evidence; 2. Internal Information; 3. The Folio and Internal Late Dates; 4. Problems with Malone's Method and Question; 5. Chronology Now; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography.

Summary

This Element will be on the three versions of Edmond Malone's An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in which the Plays Attributed to Shakspeare were Written and the way they created, shaped, focused, directed, and misdirected, our idea of the chronology and sequence of Shakespeare's plays.

Product details

• Authors: Tiffany Stern, Tiffany (Shakespeare Institute Stern, Tiffany (University of Birmingham) Stern, Stern Tiffany
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2023
• EAN: 9781009224727
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0922472-7
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Shakespeare and Text
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Theatre Studies, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean