The first quarto of King Henry V
This is the first modernized critical edition of Shakespeare's Henry V in the form of its original staging at the Globe in 1599. Andrew Gurr provides a most extensive commentary on the Quarto text of Shakespeare's last English history.
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XIII, 122 p. ill. 24 cm
9780521623360, 0521623367
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List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction; 1. The significance of the quarto text; 2. The nature of playhouse manuscripts; 3. The history of Henry V's quarto text; 4. The quarto printings; 5. The copy for and printing of Q1; 6. The so-called 'reporters' of Q1; 7. Compositor errors in Q1; 8. Mishearings from dictation; 9. Re-lineation; 10. Premeditated revisions; 11. Reassignments of parts; 12. Q's use of the cuts from F; 13. Verbal alterations for consistency; 14. Shakespeare's changes or the players'?; 15. Stage history; Note on the text; List of characters; The Play; Textual notes; Appendix 1: some of Q's re-lining of verse; Appendix 2: Q's rendering of Pistol's lines as verse; Bibliography.