The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies

Herausgeber: Erne, Lukas

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Produktbeschreibung

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and textual studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on all the major areas of current research, notably the Shakespeare manuscripts; the printed text and paratext in Shakespeare's early playbooks and poetry books; Shakespeare's place in the early modern book trade; Shakespeare's early readers, users, and collectors; the constitution and evolution of the Shakespeare canon from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century; Shakespeare's editors from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century; and the modern editorial reproduction of Shakespeare. The Handbook also devotes separate chapters to new directions and developments in research in the field, specifically in the areas of digital editing and of authorship attribution methodologies. In addition, the Companion contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A-Z of key terms and concepts, a guide to research methods and problems, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field, and a substantial annotated bibliography. The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a reference work aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and libraries, a guide to beginning or developing research in the field, an essential companion for all those interested in Shakespeare and textual studies.

Produktdetails

• The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781350225190
• ISBN-10: 1350225193
• Artikelnr.: 62894377

Autorenporträt

Lukas Erne is Professor of English at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (2003; 2nd edition, 2013), Shakespeare and the Book Trade (2013), Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators (2008), and Beyond "The Spanish Tragedy": A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (2001). He has edited The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet (2007) and A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Norton Shakespeare, 3rd edition (2015). Among the collections of essays he has edited are Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama, with M.J. Kidnie ( 2004) and Medieval and Early Modern Authorship, with Guillemette Bolens (2011). In 2012, he gave the Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford and was the Fowler Hamilton Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations List of Tables Notes on
Contributors Introduction Lukas Erne (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Part 1: Research Methods and Problems 1.1 Shakespeare and 'Textual
Studies': Evidence, Scale, Periodization and Access Claire M. L. Bourne
(Pennsylvania State University, USA) Part 2: Current Research and Issues
2.1 The Shakespeare Manuscripts Cathy L. Shrank (University of Sheffield,
UK) and Paul Werstine (King's University College, UK) 2.2 The Early Printed
Texts of Shakespeare John Jowett (University of Birmingham, UK) 2.3
Shakespeare's Early Modern Books: Printing, Paratext and Text Emma Smith
(Hertford College Oxford, UK) 2.4 Shakespeare in the Early Modern Book
Trade Marta Straznicky (Queen's University, Canada) 2.5 Shakespeare's Early
Readers and Users: Annotation, Commonplacing, Collecting Laura Estill (St.
Francis Xavier University, Canada) 2.6 The Shakespeare Canon from the
Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century Peter Kirwan (University of
Nottingham, UK) 2.7 Shakespeare's Editors from the Eighteenth to the
Twenty-First Century Andrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 2.8
The Modern Editing of Shakespeare: The Text Margaret Jane Kidnie
(University of Western Ontario, Canada) 2.9 The Modern Editing of
Shakespeare: The Apparatus Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University Chicago, USA)
Part 3: New Directions 3.1 Shakespeare and Authorship Attribution
Methodologies Hugh Craig (University of Newcastle, Australia) 3.2
Shakespeare and Digital Editions Sonia Massai (King's College London, UK)
Part 4: Material for Further Research 4.1 Chronology Alan B. Farmer (Ohio
State University, USA) 4.2 Resources Emma Depledge (University of
Neuchâtel, Switzerland) 4.3 A-Z of Key Terms and Concepts Eric Rasmussen
(University of Nevada, USA) and Ian H. De Jong (Academy of Nevada, USA) 4.4
Annotated Bibliography Jean-Christophe Mayer (Université Paul Valéry,
Montpellier, France) Index