Textual performances : the modern reproduction of Shakespeare's drama
This important collection brings together leading scholars to examine crucial questions regarding the theory and practice of editing Shakespeare's plays. In particular the essays look at how best to engage editorially with evidence provided by historical research into the playhouse, author's study, and printing house. How are editors of playscripts to mediate history, in its many forms, for modern users? Considering our knowledge of the past is partial (in the senses both of incomplete and ideological), where are we to draw the line between legitimate editorial assistance and unwarranted interference? In what innovative ways might current controversies surrounding the mediation of Shakespeare's drama shape future editorial practice? Focusing on the key points of debate and controversy of the present moment, this collection makes a vital contribution to a better understanding of how editorial practice (on the page and in cyberspace) might develop in the twenty-first century. -- Publisher's description
Print Book, English, 2004
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2004
Aufsatzsammlung
xv, 229 pages ; 24 cm
9780521830959, 0521830958
53375264
The two texts of Othello and early modern constructions of race / Leah S. Marcus
'Work of permanent utility': editors and texts, authorities and originals / H.R. Woudhuysen
Housmania: episodes in twentieth-century 'critical' editing of Shakespeare / Paul Werstine
Addressing adaptation: Measure for Measure and Sir Thomas More / John Jowett
The New Bibliography and its critics / Ernst Honigmann
Scholarly editing and the shift from print to electronic cultures / Sonia Massai
'Your sum of parts': doubling in Hamlet / Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor
The perception of error: the editing and the performance of the opening of Coriolanus / Michael Warren
Modern spelling: the hard choices / David Bevington
The staging of Shakespeare's drama in print editions / Margaret Jane Kidnie
Open stage, open page? Editing stage directions in early dramatic texts / John D. Cox
Two varieties of digital commentary / John Lavagnino
New collaborations with old plays: the (textual) politics of performance commentary / Barbara Hodgdon