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Author Jowett, John.

Title Shakespeare and text / John Jowett
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford Shakespeare topics
Oxford Shakespeare topics.
Contents Author and collaborator -- Theatre -- The material book -- The first folio -- Mapping the text -- Emendation and modernization -- Versification and stage directions -- Texts for readers
Summary The only currently available introductory survey of the foundations of the text of Shakespeare, this book examines Shakespeare's writing in the environment of the theatre, and the printing of the earliest surviving texts. It goes on to review the ways in which the origin and production of these texts have been understood by textual scholars, and how they have been used in the preparation of modern editions. - ;OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS. General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells. Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-222) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism, Textual.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English Literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007025807
ISBN 9780191566264
0191566268
9786611149581
6611149589