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Author : Kathleen O. Irace
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874134714
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.
Author : Margrethe Jolly
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476615561
It is nearly two centuries since the first quarto of Hamlet was rediscovered, yet there is still no consensus about its relationship to the second quarto. Indeed, the first quarto, the least frequently read Hamlet, has been dismissed as “corrupt,” “inferior” or like “a mutilated corpse,” even though in performance it has been described as “the absolute dynamo behind the play.” Currently one hypothesis dominates explanations about the quartos’ interrelationship, supposing that the first quarto (published 1603) was reconstructed from memory by one or more actors who had performed minor roles in a version of the second quarto (published 1604–5). The present study reports on a detailed linguistic reassessment of the principal arguments for memorial reconstruction. The evidence—including a three way comparison between the underlying French source in Les Histoires Tragiques and the two quartos, and the informal features and specific grammatical aspects, and a documented memorial reconstruction in 1779—does not support the dominant hypothesis. The cumulative evidence suggests that the earliest scholars to examine the first quarto were right: the 1603 Hamlet came first, and the second quarto is a substantial, later revision.
Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521523885
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
Author : Lene B. Petersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521765220
Using case studies of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Titus Andronicus, this book examines what constitutes a 'Shakespearean text'.
Author : Laurie E. Maguire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521473644
An examination of forty-one Shakespearean play texts, the 'bad quartos' or 'memorial reconstructions'.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521623367
This is the first modernized critical edition of Shakespeare's Henry V in the form of its original staging at the Globe in 1599.
Author : John Jowett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192562616
Shakespeare and Text is built on the research and experience of a leading expert on Shakespeare editing and textual studies. The first edition has proved its value as an indispensable and unique guide to its topic. It takes Shakespeare readers to the very foundation of his work, explaining how his plays first took shape in the theatre where writing was part of a larger collective enterprise. The account examines the early modern printing industry that produced the earliest surviving texts of Shakespeare's plays. It describes the roles of publisher and printer, the controls exerted through the Stationers' Company, and the technology of printing. A chapter is devoted to the book that gathered Shakespeare's plays together for the first time, the First Folio of 1623. Shakespeare and Text goes on to survey the major developments in textual studies over the past century. It builds on the recent upsurge of interest in textual theory, and deals with issues such as collaboration, the instability of the text, the relationship between theatre culture and print culture, and the book as a material object. Later chapters examine the current critical edition, explaining the procedures that transform early texts in to a very different cultural artefact, the edition in which we regularly encounter Shakespeare. The new revised edition, which builds on Jowett's research for the New Oxford Shakespeare, engages with scholarship of the past decade, work that has transformed our understanding of textual versions, has opened up the taxonomy of Shakespeare's texts, and has significantly extended the picture of Shakespeare as a co-author. A new chapter describes digital text, digital editing, and their interface with the traditional media.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107044098
A modernised edition of one of the most controversial early texts of a Shakespeare play. With a full introduction discussing the various theories of its origins.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521653908
Now available in paperback, this is the only modernised critical edition of the 1603 quarto of Shakespeare's Hamlet in print.
Author : Francisco Fernández
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English philology
ISBN : 8437049423
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781139835237
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This is the third New Cambridge edition of The Taming of the Shrew, one of Shakespeare's most popular yet controversial plays. Ann Thompson considers its reception in the light of the hostility and embarrassment that the play often arouses, taking account of both scholarly defences and modern feminist criticism. For this version the editor pays lively attention to the problematic nature of debates about the play and its reception in the twenty-first century. She discusses recent editions and textual, performance and critical studies.
Author : James Bednarz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231504268
In a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar James Bednarz traces the Bard's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. Bednarz offers the most thorough reevaluation of this "War of the Theaters" since Harbage's Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions, revealing a new vision of Shakespeare as a playwright intimately concerned with the production of his plays, the opinions of his rivals, and the impact his works had on their original audiences. Rather than viewing Shakespeare as an anonymous creator, Shakespeare and the Poets' War re-creates the contentious entertainment industry that fostered his genius when he first began to write at the Globe in 1599. Bednarz redraws the Poets' War as a debate on the social function of drama and the status of the dramatist that involved not only Shakespeare and Jonson but also the lesser known John Marston and Thomas Dekker. He shows how this controversy, triggered by Jonson's bold new dramatic experiments, directly influenced the writing of As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet, gave rise to the first modern drama criticism in English, and shaped the way we still perceive Shakespeare today.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408143247
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's only thoroughly English comedy, created an archetypal literary figure in the shape of the devious, irrepressible John Falstaff. This stimulating new edition celebrates the play as a joyous exploration of language, but also places elements of its plot firmly in a continental, specifically Italian, tradition of romantic comedy. It draws out the complexities of Merry Wives as a multi-plot play, and takes a fresh and challenging look at both textual and dating issues; a facsimile of the first Quarto is included as an appendix. The play's extensive performance history, both dramatic and operatic, is fully explored and discussed.`This is a significant and substantive edition, in that nothing has been taken for granted, everything has been opened to reconsideration. The commentary is exceptionally detailed and attentive to questions of language and meaning.'John Jowett, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Quarterly
Author : Jesús Tronch-Pérez,Jesús Tronch
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 8437053811
A Synoptic Hamlet is an alternative response to the editorial problems of this multiple-text play. Like most critical editions, it presents the early texts in a manner helpful to the general reader by modernizing spelling and punctuation, and emending non-sensical readings. However, it does not hide the text’s diversity by exclusively selecting readings from either the Second Quarto or the First Folio in order to reconstruct a single-reading version corresponding to the authentic Hamlet. Rather, it makes their significant variants immediately available in the line itself (offering alternative editorial interpretations of identical or similar readings at certain points). Thus the reader can have a direct appreciation of the divergence and similarity between these early texts from which the Hamlet of today is known.
Author : John Pitcher
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838638058
This volume, published annually, contains essays by critics and cultural historians, as well as reviews of the many books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realised in its drama.