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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Jowett |
ISBN: | 9780198827559 0198827555 9780198827566 0198827563 |
OCLC Number: | 1111318979 |
Notes: | Previous edition: 2007. |
Description: | vi, 249 pages ; 21 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: what is your text? -- Author and collaborator -- Theatre -- The material book -- The first folio -- Mapping the text -- Emendation and versification -- Modernization and stage directions -- The digital text. |
Series Title: | Oxford Shakespeare topics. |
Responsibility: | John Jowett. |
Abstract:
An introduction to the foundations of the text of Shakespeare that examines Shakespeare's writing in the environment of the theatre and the printing of the earliest surviving texts. This revised edition includes a new chapter on digital text, digital editing, and their interface with the traditional media.
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Emphasising the multifaceted nature of the Shakespearean text, this book written by a leading expert in the field proves both illuminating and useful, and offers valuable insights into early modern editions as well as modern printed and digital ones. While it will be most helpful to students interested in Shakespeare and in textual studies - especially to post-graduate students specialising in the early modern period - it will also provide the general readers withmuch-needed clarifications on the authorship of Shakespeare's texts thanks to contextually-based examples. * Sophie Chiari, Cercles * Read more...
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