The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization and editorial practice. They showcase cutting-edge research practices and approaches in textual editing, and in manuscript and performance studies to produce new ways of reading and working for students and scholars.
Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text.
We do not edit performance , or base our scholarly editions solely or mainly on texts derived from performance – at least , we do not say that we are doing so . But what of those Shakespeare revisions preserved in the Folio ?
Edited by Peter J. Seng. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. Apollon, Daniel, Claire Bélisle and Phillipe Régnier, eds. Digital Critical Editions. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014. Aston Fowler ...
Before developing such general observations, however, I would like to turn my attention to an aspect of 'profitable' glossing that Bacon (for obvious reasons) neglects to mention, namely the role of performance in the editing of texts.
Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship D. C. Greetham, W. Speed Hill, Peter Shillingsburg. II : Editing the Text , Page to Performance Performances as “ Versions It is true that some poems vary more in performance than ...
a distinction between the work , which depends equally on the score and performance for its existence , and a text , either written ( a score ) or sounding ( a performance ) that defines a particular state of the work .
46 This is the blurb from Peter Martin, Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar: A LiteraryBiography(Cambridge,1995).Mal- one didn't invent professional literary study single-handedly and ex nihilo. For ways in which Capell anticipated ...
10 Performance and the Text 168 Traces of early performance 170 Editing for performance 176 11 Textual Theories and Difficult Cases: Hamlet and Pericles 185 Shakespeare's texts and early editions 186 Enter the New Bibliography 190 The ...