A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the TextISBN: 978-1-4051-3528-3
Hardcover
280 pages
June 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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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