Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto
The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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 First Part of the Contention Between the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster
The Tempest
Shakspere's Hamlet
The True Tragedy of Richard, Duke of York (Henry the Sixth, Part III).
A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto
Author: Henrietta C.. Bartlett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The First Quarto of King Richard III
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521418188
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
In this quarto edition the text is accompanied by a collation of variant readings and substantial textual notes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521418188
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
In this quarto edition the text is accompanied by a collation of variant readings and substantial textual notes.
Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780520035805
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780520035805
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
The One King Lear
Author: Brian Vickers
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.