Shakespeare / Text Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance
Synopsis
Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary – such as book/theatre, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital and original/copy – that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze, teach, perform and edit Shakespeare today. Drawing on methods from book history, bibliography, editorial theory, library science, the digital humanities, theatre studies and literary criticism, the collection as a whole proposes that our understanding of Shakespeare – and early modern drama more broadly – changes radically when 'either/or' approaches to the Shakespearean text are reconfigured. The chapters in Shakespeare / Text make strong cases for challenging received wisdom and offer new, portable methods of treating 'the text', in its myriad instantiations, that will be useful to scholars, editors, theatre practitioners, teachers and librarians.Book details
- Series:
- Arden Shakespeare Intersections
- Author:
- Sonia Massai, Farah Karim Cooper, Gordon McMullan, Lucy Munro
- ISBN:
- 9781350128163
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781350128149
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2021-07-28
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Copyright by:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Art and Architecture, Drama, Plays and Theater, Entertainment, Language Arts, Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction, Reference