Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521821215
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
A full edition of the first quarto of Romeo and Juliet (1597), with helpful commentary.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521821215
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
A full edition of the first quarto of Romeo and Juliet (1597), with helpful commentary.
The Tempest
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The One King Lear
Author: Brian Vickers
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674970330
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
King Lear exists in two different texts: the Quarto (1608) and the Folio (1623). Because each supplies passages missing in the other, for over 200 years editors combined the two to form a single text, the basis for all modern productions. Then in the 1980s a group of influential scholars argued that the two texts represent different versions of King Lear, that Shakespeare revised his play in light of theatrical performance. The two-text theory has since hardened into orthodoxy. Now for the first time in a book-length argument, one of the world’s most eminent Shakespeare scholars challenges the two-text theory. At stake is the way Shakespeare’s greatest play is read and performed. Sir Brian Vickers demonstrates that the cuts in the Quarto were in fact carried out by the printer because he had underestimated the amount of paper he would need. Paper was an expensive commodity in the early modern period, and printers counted the number of lines or words in a manuscript before ordering their supply. As for the Folio, whereas the revisionists claim that Shakespeare cut the text in order to alter the balance between characters, Vickers sees no evidence of his agency. These cuts were likely made by the theater company to speed up the action. Vickers includes responses to the revisionist theory made by leading literary scholars, who show that the Folio cuts damage the play’s moral and emotional structure and are impracticable on the stage.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674970330
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
King Lear exists in two different texts: the Quarto (1608) and the Folio (1623). Because each supplies passages missing in the other, for over 200 years editors combined the two to form a single text, the basis for all modern productions. Then in the 1980s a group of influential scholars argued that the two texts represent different versions of King Lear, that Shakespeare revised his play in light of theatrical performance. The two-text theory has since hardened into orthodoxy. Now for the first time in a book-length argument, one of the world’s most eminent Shakespeare scholars challenges the two-text theory. At stake is the way Shakespeare’s greatest play is read and performed. Sir Brian Vickers demonstrates that the cuts in the Quarto were in fact carried out by the printer because he had underestimated the amount of paper he would need. Paper was an expensive commodity in the early modern period, and printers counted the number of lines or words in a manuscript before ordering their supply. As for the Folio, whereas the revisionists claim that Shakespeare cut the text in order to alter the balance between characters, Vickers sees no evidence of his agency. These cuts were likely made by the theater company to speed up the action. Vickers includes responses to the revisionist theory made by leading literary scholars, who show that the Folio cuts damage the play’s moral and emotional structure and are impracticable on the stage.
A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto
Author: Henrietta C.. Bartlett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
SHAKSPERE'S HAMLET
Author: WILLIAM. SHAKESPEARE
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033882351
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033882351
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Life of King Henry the Fifth
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Shakespeare and Textual Studies
Author: Margaret Jane Kidnie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107023742
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
A cutting-edge and comprehensive reassessment of the theories, practices and archival evidence that shape editorial approaches to Shakespeare's texts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107023742
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
A cutting-edge and comprehensive reassessment of the theories, practices and archival evidence that shape editorial approaches to Shakespeare's texts.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio
Author: Emma Josephine Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107098785
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
An international team of scholars covers every aspect of one of the most famous books in the English language.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107098785
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
An international team of scholars covers every aspect of one of the most famous books in the English language.
The Tudor Facsimile Texts: The true tragedy of Richard, Duke of York
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780404533762
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780404533762
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description