- Title Pages
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on References
- Introduction
-
1 Textual Shakespeare -
2 Shakespeare and Poetry -
3 Shakespeare and The Novel -
4 Shakespeare and Translation -
5 Shakespeare Anthologized -
6 Shakespeare and Biography -
7 Shakespeare and Early Modern Music -
8 Shakespeare and Opera -
9 Shakespeare and Classical Music -
10 Shakespeare and Musical Theatre -
11 Shakespeare, Ballet and Dance -
12 Shakespeare and Popular Music -
13 Shakespeare and Drama -
14 Shakespeare and The Renaissance Stage -
15 Shakespeare and The Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Stage -
16 Shakespeare and The Victorian Stage -
17 Shakespeare and The Modern Stage -
18 Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance Spaces -
19 Shakespeare for Children -
20 Shakespeare and Teenagers -
21 Shakespeare and The Comic Book -
22 Shakespeare, Portraiture, Painting and Prints -
23 Shakespeare, Sculpture and The Material Arts -
24 Shakespeare Exhibition and Festival Culture -
25 Shakespeare and Silent Film -
26 Shakespeare on Film, 1930–90 -
27 Shakespeare on Film, 1990–2010 -
28 Shakespeare on Television -
29 Shakespeare and Radio -
30 Shakespeare on The Internet and in Digital Media - Notes on Contributors
- Index
Textual Shakespeare
Textual Shakespeare
- Chapter:
- (p.11) 1 Textual Shakespeare
- Source:
- The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts
- Author(s):
Sonia Massai
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
This chapter describes the range and type of variant readings introduced by subsequent generations of editors in a short sample scene in King Lear. It shows that even the earliest publishers of Shakespeare's works were acutely aware of the impact of the textual and paratextual features of their editions on their readers. It reviews the impact of the rise of scholarly editorial tradition on the transmission of Shakespeare in print from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century. The tendency to monumentalize rather than to edit Shakespeare systematically continued despite the increasing stress placed on justifying and supporting editorial intervention by means of a thorough collation of the early editions. A renewed interest in the medium of print as fashioning rather than corrupting ‘textual Shakespeare’ has led increasing numbers of scholars and research students to work with facsimiles or digital images of the early editions, now available online.
Keywords: textual Shakespeare, King Lear, online, editors, readings, editorial intervention, print
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- Title Pages
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on References
- Introduction
-
1 Textual Shakespeare -
2 Shakespeare and Poetry -
3 Shakespeare and The Novel -
4 Shakespeare and Translation -
5 Shakespeare Anthologized -
6 Shakespeare and Biography -
7 Shakespeare and Early Modern Music -
8 Shakespeare and Opera -
9 Shakespeare and Classical Music -
10 Shakespeare and Musical Theatre -
11 Shakespeare, Ballet and Dance -
12 Shakespeare and Popular Music -
13 Shakespeare and Drama -
14 Shakespeare and The Renaissance Stage -
15 Shakespeare and The Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Stage -
16 Shakespeare and The Victorian Stage -
17 Shakespeare and The Modern Stage -
18 Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance Spaces -
19 Shakespeare for Children -
20 Shakespeare and Teenagers -
21 Shakespeare and The Comic Book -
22 Shakespeare, Portraiture, Painting and Prints -
23 Shakespeare, Sculpture and The Material Arts -
24 Shakespeare Exhibition and Festival Culture -
25 Shakespeare and Silent Film -
26 Shakespeare on Film, 1930–90 -
27 Shakespeare on Film, 1990–2010 -
28 Shakespeare on Television -
29 Shakespeare and Radio -
30 Shakespeare on The Internet and in Digital Media - Notes on Contributors
- Index
