Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto
The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521821215
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
A full edition of the first quarto of Romeo and Juliet (1597), with helpful commentary.
The Tempest
Author: William ShakespeareA Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto
Author: Henrietta C.. BartlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The One King Lear
Author: Brian VickersPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674970330
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
King Lear exists in two different texts: the Quarto (1608) and the Folio (1623). Because each supplies passages missing in the other, for over 200 years editors combined the two to form a single text, the basis for all modern productions. Then in the 1980s a group of influential scholars argued that the two texts represent different versions of King Lear, that Shakespeare revised his play in light of theatrical performance. The two-text theory has since hardened into orthodoxy. Now for the first time in a book-length argument, one of the world’s most eminent Shakespeare scholars challenges the two-text theory. At stake is the way Shakespeare’s greatest play is read and performed. Sir Brian Vickers demonstrates that the cuts in the Quarto were in fact carried out by the printer because he had underestimated the amount of paper he would need. Paper was an expensive commodity in the early modern period, and printers counted the number of lines or words in a manuscript before ordering their supply. As for the Folio, whereas the revisionists claim that Shakespeare cut the text in order to alter the balance between characters, Vickers sees no evidence of his agency. These cuts were likely made by the theater company to speed up the action. Vickers includes responses to the revisionist theory made by leading literary scholars, who show that the Folio cuts damage the play’s moral and emotional structure and are impracticable on the stage.
Shakespeare and Textual Studies
Author: Margaret Jane KidniePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107023742
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
A cutting-edge and comprehensive reassessment of the theories, practices and archival evidence that shape editorial approaches to Shakespeare's texts.
The First Part of the Contention Between the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, & C. 1594
Author: William 1564-1616 ShakespearePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019751541
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A dramatic retelling of the Wars of the Roses, as the Lancastrian and Yorkist factions struggle for control of England's throne in the late medieval period. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
SHAKSPERE'S HAMLET
Author: WILLIAM. SHAKESPEAREPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033882351
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Life of King Henry the Fifth
Author: William ShakespeareShakespearean Suspect Texts
Author: Laurie E. MaguirePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521473640
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
An examination of forty-one Shakespearean play texts, the 'bad quartos' or 'memorial reconstructions'.