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Book Synopsis Reforming the "bad" Quartos by : Kathleen O. Irace
Download or read book Reforming the "bad" Quartos written by Kathleen O. Irace and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If, as this study argues, the actors also adapted the plays, the short quartos preserve the earliest fast-paced popular adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, designed by the actors to please the million.
Book Synopsis The First Two Quartos of Hamlet by : Margrethe Jolly
Download or read book The First Two Quartos of Hamlet written by Margrethe Jolly and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is nearly two centuries since the first quarto of Hamlet was rediscovered, yet there is still no consensus about its relationship to the second quarto. Indeed, the first quarto, the least frequently read Hamlet, has been dismissed as “corrupt,” “inferior” or like “a mutilated corpse,” even though in performance it has been described as “the absolute dynamo behind the play.” Currently one hypothesis dominates explanations about the quartos’ interrelationship, supposing that the first quarto (published 1603) was reconstructed from memory by one or more actors who had performed minor roles in a version of the second quarto (published 1604–5). The present study reports on a detailed linguistic reassessment of the principal arguments for memorial reconstruction. The evidence—including a three way comparison between the underlying French source in Les Histoires Tragiques and the two quartos, and the informal features and specific grammatical aspects, and a documented memorial reconstruction in 1779—does not support the dominant hypothesis. The cumulative evidence suggests that the earliest scholars to examine the first quarto were right: the 1603 Hamlet came first, and the second quarto is a substantial, later revision.
Book Synopsis Textual Formations and Reformations by : Laurie E. Maguire
Download or read book Textual Formations and Reformations written by Laurie E. Maguire and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the development of textual theory and practice in the twentieth century, questioning not just the assumptions and methodologies of textual study but the very genesis of textual study and current definitions of the field. Each contributor tackles a specific theoretical or practical issue in essays that cover feminist practice, editorial procedure, political ideology, practical dramaturgy, and sixteenth- and twentieth-century history. The result is a volume at once wide-ranging and detailed, of interest and value to cultural historians as well as to textual scholars.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare Survey by : Stanley Wells
Download or read book Shakespeare Survey written by Stanley Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Errant Texts by : Lene B. Petersen
Download or read book Shakespeare's Errant Texts written by Lene B. Petersen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using case studies of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Titus Andronicus, this book examines what constitutes a 'Shakespearean text'.
Book Synopsis Shakespearean Suspect Texts by : Laurie E. Maguire
Download or read book Shakespearean Suspect Texts written by Laurie E. Maguire and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of forty-one Shakespearean play texts, the 'bad quartos' or 'memorial reconstructions'.
Book Synopsis The First Quarto of King Henry V by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The First Quarto of King Henry V written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first modernized critical edition of Shakespeare's Henry V in the form of its original staging at the Globe in 1599.
Book Synopsis The First Quarto of Hamlet by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The First Quarto of Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this is the only modernised critical edition of the 1603 quarto of Shakespeare's Hamlet in print.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Text by : John Jowett
Download or read book Shakespeare and Text written by John Jowett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Text is built on the research and experience of a leading expert on Shakespeare editing and textual studies. The first edition has proved its value as an indispensable and unique guide to its topic. It takes Shakespeare readers to the very foundation of his work, explaining how his plays first took shape in the theatre where writing was part of a larger collective enterprise. The account examines the early modern printing industry that produced the earliest surviving texts of Shakespeare's plays. It describes the roles of publisher and printer, the controls exerted through the Stationers' Company, and the technology of printing. A chapter is devoted to the book that gathered Shakespeare's plays together for the first time, the First Folio of 1623. Shakespeare and Text goes on to survey the major developments in textual studies over the past century. It builds on the recent upsurge of interest in textual theory, and deals with issues such as collaboration, the instability of the text, the relationship between theatre culture and print culture, and the book as a material object. Later chapters examine the current critical edition, explaining the procedures that transform early texts in to a very different cultural artefact, the edition in which we regularly encounter Shakespeare. The new revised edition, which builds on Jowett's research for the New Oxford Shakespeare, engages with scholarship of the past decade, work that has transformed our understanding of textual versions, has opened up the taxonomy of Shakespeare's texts, and has significantly extended the picture of Shakespeare as a co-author. A new chapter describes digital text, digital editing, and their interface with the traditional media.
Book Synopsis The First Quarto of ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor' by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The First Quarto of ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor' written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modernised edition of one of the most controversial early texts of a Shakespeare play. With a full introduction discussing the various theories of its origins.
Book Synopsis Los estudios ingleses en el umbral del tercer milenio by : Francisco Fernández
Download or read book Los estudios ingleses en el umbral del tercer milenio written by Francisco Fernández and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2001 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Taming of the Shrew by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Taming of the Shrew written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of The Taming of the Shrew, one of Shakespeare's most popular yet controversial plays, includes a new introductory section which pays lively attention to twenty-first-century stage performances, textual and critical studies. Ann Thompson describes the 'deeply problematic' nature of debates about the play and its reception.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Poets' War by : James Bednarz
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Poets' War written by James Bednarz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar James Bednarz traces the Bard's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. Bednarz offers the most thorough reevaluation of this "War of the Theaters" since Harbage's Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions, revealing a new vision of Shakespeare as a playwright intimately concerned with the production of his plays, the opinions of his rivals, and the impact his works had on their original audiences. Rather than viewing Shakespeare as an anonymous creator, Shakespeare and the Poets' War re-creates the contentious entertainment industry that fostered his genius when he first began to write at the Globe in 1599. Bednarz redraws the Poets' War as a debate on the social function of drama and the status of the dramatist that involved not only Shakespeare and Jonson but also the lesser known John Marston and Thomas Dekker. He shows how this controversy, triggered by Jonson's bold new dramatic experiments, directly influenced the writing of As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet, gave rise to the first modern drama criticism in English, and shaped the way we still perceive Shakespeare today.
Book Synopsis A Synoptic Hamlet: a Critical-Synoptic Edition of the Second Quarto and First Folio Texts of Hamlet by : Jesús Tronch-Pérez
Download or read book A Synoptic Hamlet: a Critical-Synoptic Edition of the Second Quarto and First Folio Texts of Hamlet written by Jesús Tronch-Pérez and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2002 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Synoptic Hamlet is an alternative response to the editorial problems of this multiple-text play. Like most critical editions, it presents the early texts in a manner helpful to the general reader by modernizing spelling and punctuation, and emending non-sensical readings. However, it does not hide the text’s diversity by exclusively selecting readings from either the Second Quarto or the First Folio in order to reconstruct a single-reading version corresponding to the authentic Hamlet. Rather, it makes their significant variants immediately available in the line itself (offering alternative editorial interpretations of identical or similar readings at certain points). Thus the reader can have a direct appreciation of the divergence and similarity between these early texts from which the Hamlet of today is known.
Book Synopsis The Merry Wives Of Windsor by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Merry Wives Of Windsor written by William Shakespeare and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's only thoroughly English comedy, created an archetypal literary figure in the shape of the devious, irrepressible John Falstaff. This stimulating new edition celebrates the play as a joyous exploration of language, but also places elements of its plot firmly in a continental, specifically Italian, tradition of romantic comedy. It draws out the complexities of Merry Wives as a multi-plot play, and takes a fresh and challenging look at both textual and dating issues; a facsimile of the first Quarto is included as an appendix. The play's extensive performance history, both dramatic and operatic, is fully explored and discussed.`This is a significant and substantive edition, in that nothing has been taken for granted, everything has been opened to reconsideration. The commentary is exceptionally detailed and attentive to questions of language and meaning.'John Jowett, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Quarterly
Book Synopsis Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England by : John Pitcher
Download or read book Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England written by John Pitcher and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, published annually, contains essays by critics and cultural historians, as well as reviews of the many books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realised in its drama.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare Studies Today by : E. Pechter
Download or read book Shakespeare Studies Today written by E. Pechter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romantics invented Shakespeare studies, and in losing contact with our origins, we have not been able to develop an adequate alternative foundation on which to build our work. This book asserts that among Shakespeareans at present, the level of conviction required to sustain a healthy critical practice is problematically if not dangerously low, and the qualities which the Romantics valued in an engagement with Shakespeare are either ignored these days or fundamentally misunderstood.
