Canonising Shakespeare

Herausgeber: Depledge, Emma; Kirwan, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book appeals to scholars with interests in Shakespeare's authorial and publication history and book history, from the Renaissance to the early eighteenth century. International experts show how booksellers, editors, printers and publishers shaped the Shakespeare canon, adapting the presentation of Shakespeare's plays and poems for a range of consumers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9781316608258
• ISBN-10: 1316608255
• Artikelnr.: 64361304

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Emma Depledge and Peter Kirwan; Part I. Selling
Shakespeare: 2. Shakespeare for sale, 1640-1740 Emma Depledge; 3. Royalist
Shakespeare: publishers, politics and the appropriation of The Rape of
Lucrece (1655) Adam G. Hooks; 4. Henry Herringman, Richard Bentley and
Shakespeare's Fourth Folio (1685) Francis X. Connor; 5. Shakespeare without
rules: the fifth Shakespeare folio and market demand in the early 1700s
Lara Hansen and Eric Rasmussen; 6. The 1734-5 price wars, Antony and
Cleopatra and the theatrical imagination Anthony Brano. Part II.
Consolidating the Shakespeare Canon: 7. Consolidating the Shakespeare
canon, 1640-1740 Peter Kirwan; 8. John Benson's 1640 poems and its literary
precedents Faith Acker; 9. Cupids Cabinet Unlock't (1662), ostensibly 'by
W. Shakespeare', in fact partly by John Milton Lukas Erne; 10. Discovering
Shakespeare's personal style: editing and connoisseurship in the eighteenth
century Edmund G. C. King; Part III. Editing Shakespeare: 11. Editing
Shakespeare, 1640-1740 Emma Depledge and Peter Kirwan; 12. Dramatic
typography and the restoration quartos of Hamlet Claire M. L. Bourne; 13.
The 1709/11 editions of Shakespeare's poems Paul D. Cannan; 14. Alexander
Pope, interventionist editing and The Taming of the Shrew (1725) Jonathan
H. Holmes; 15. Editorial annotations in Shakespeare editions after 1733
Adam Rounce; 16. Afterword Patrick Cheney.