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Informationen zum Autor Andrew Murphy is Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing (2003), the editor of The Renaissance Text: Theory, Editing, Textuality (2000), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Scotland (2004). Klappentext A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare's plays and poems, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole.* The first single-volume book to provide an accessible and authoritative introduction to Shakespearean bibliographic studies* Includes a helpful introduction, notes on Shakespeare's texts, and a useful bibliography* Contributors represent both leading and emerging scholars in the field* Represents an unparalleled resource for both students and faculty Zusammenfassung A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare's plays and poems, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments x Note on Texts xi Introduction: What Happens in Hamlet? 1 Andrew Murphy Part I Histories of the Books 15 1 The Publishing Trade in Shakespeare's Time 17 Helen Smith 2 Reading and Authorship: The Circulation of Shakespeare 1590-1619 35 Peter Stallybrass and Roger Chartier 3 Shakespeare Writ Small: Early Single Editions of Shakespeare's Plays 57 Thomas L. Berger 4 The Life of the First Folio in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 71 Anthony James West Part II Theories of Editing 91 5 The Birth of the Editor 93 Andrew Murphy 6 The Science of Editing 109 Paul Werstine 7 Editing Shakespeare in a Postmodern Age 128 Leah S. Marcus 8 Shakespeare and the Electronic Text 145 Michael Best Part III Practicalities 163 9 Working with the Text: Editing in Practice 165 David Bevington 10 Working with the Texts: Differential Readings 185 Sonia Massai 11 Mapping Shakespeare's Contexts: Doing Things with Databases 204 Neil Rhodes Afterword 221 John Drakakis Bibliography 239 Index 258 ...
