Reforming the "bad" Quartos: Performance and Provenance of Six Shakespearean First Editions

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University of Delaware Press, 1994 - 232 頁
"The second half of the book explores this theory of the origin of the short quartos, as well as two others: authorial revision and memorial reconstruction. Using a computer-assisted analysis of parallel texts of the six plays, Reforming the "Bad" Quartos demonstrates that actor-reporters were responsible for shaping the short quartos, not Shakespeare himself, for the players apparently reconstructed the plays from their memories of London performances." "If, as this study argues, the actors also adapted the plays, the short quartos preserve the earliest fast-paced popular adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, designed by the actors to please the million."--BOOK JACKET.

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Introduction
11
Performance Features
21
Plot Structure
23
Characterization
45
Staging
70
Provenance
93
Revision
95
Memorial Reconstruction
115
QuartoFolio Plot Outlines
173
Tables of Closely Linked or Missing Passages
178
Charts Indicating Likely Reporters
180
Tired Reporter Tables
186
Tables of Potentially Deliberate Omissions
187
Notes
189
Works Cited
211
Index
224

Adaptation
138
Conclusion
160

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