Shakespeare s Fight With the Pirates and the Problems of the - Transmission of His Tex

Klappentext First published in 1915! this controversial textual analysis overturned earlier views about the reliability of the Quartos of Shakespeare's plays. Zusammenfassung Originally presented as a series of lectures in Cambridge! this 1915 publication considers the measures taken to prevent book piracy in early modern England. It argued! controversially but convincingly! that the early Quartos of Shakespeare's plays are more closely related to the original manuscript than had previously been supposed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; The regulation of the book trade in the sixteenth century; Authors, players and pirates in Shakespeare's day; The manuscripts of Shakespeare's plays; The improvers of Shakespeare; Index.

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• Autori: Pollard Alfred W., Alfred W. Pollard, Alfred William Pollard
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 17.06.2010
• EAN: 9781108015349
• ISBN: 978-1-108-01534-9
• Pagine: 144
• Serie: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Literary studies: general