Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama

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Lukas Erne, Margaret Jane Kidnie
Cambridge University Press, 13 mai 2004 - 229 pagini
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 key points of debate and controversy, 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.

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The two texts of Othello and early modern constructions of race
21
Work of permanent utility editors and texts authorities and originals
37
Housmania episodes in twentiethcentury critical editing of Shakespeare
49
Addressing adaptation Measure for Measure and Sir Thomas More
63
The New Bibliography and its critics
77
Scholarly editing and the shift from print to electronic cultures
94
Your sum of farts doubling in Hamlet
111
The perception of error the editing and the performance of the opening of Coriolanus
127
Modern spelling the hard choices
143
The staging of Shakespeares drama in print editions
158
Open stage open page? Editing stage directions in early dramatic texts
178
Two varieties of digital commentary
194
New collaborations with old plays the textual politics of performance commentary
210
Index
224
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Lukas Erne teaches English literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (Cambridge, 2003) and Beyond The Spanish Tragedy: A study of the works of Thomas Kyd (2001). Margaret Jane Kidnie is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is the editor of Ben Jonson: The Devil is an Ass and Other Plays (2000), and Philip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses (2002).

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