In Arden : Editing Shakespeare - Essays In Honour Of Richard Proudfoot.

Cover -- Half-title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: BIBLIOGRAPHY/THEORY OF EDITING -- 1 Shakespeares various -- 2 The continuing importance of New Bibliography -- 3 Correct impressions: editing and evidence in the wake of post-modernism -- 4 Early play texts: forms and formes -- PART II: EDITING AND FEMINISM -- 5 'To foster is not always to preserve': feminist inflections in editing Pericles -- 6 Editing Desdemona -- 7 Who is performing 'in' these text(s)? -- or, Shrew-ing around -- PART III: EDITING AND STAGE PRACTICE -- 8 To edit? To direct? - Ay, there's the rub -- 9 Raw flesh/lion's flesh: a cautionary note on stage directions -- 10 Reading in the moment: theatre practice as a guide to textual editing -- 11 Annotating silence -- PART IV: ANNOTATION AND COLLATION -- 12 The social function of annotation -- 13 The character of a footnote . . . or, annotation revisited -- 14 To be or not to be -- 15 Richly noted: a case for collation inflation -- PART V: THE PLAYWRIGHT AND OTHERS -- 16 Sources and cruces -- 17 Topical forest: Kemp and Mar-text in Arden -- 18 Some call him Autolycus -- Appendix -- Index.

A collection of new and specially commissioned essays by an eminent team of Shakespeare scholars, focusing on the particular issues relating to the editing of Shakespeare and other Renaissance texts. The editing of dramatic and other literary texts has always been an important aspect of literary studies. In recent years, editing and the theoretical frameworks that underlie editing practices have become a lively and controversial focus of debate, sparked both by philosophical discussions on 'the death of the author' and by the technological challenges presented by the possibilities of electronic texts. Most national and international conferences on literature and drama include sessions on textual studies and editing, and a number of monographs address particular issues relating to the editing of Shakespeare and other Renaissance texts, but this is the first overall survey of the current state of the field. The essays have been commissioned to honour Professor Richard Proudfoot, Senior General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare, and an internationally recognised authority in the field of Shakespeare textual scholarship, who retired from King's College London in 1999 after 35 years. This is a well-planned, focused and co-ordinated volume makes a significant contribution to Shakespeare studies. The contributors are a formidable and global group of scholars, representing both traditional and contemporary viewpoints. They include a number of Arden editors, past and present, as well as scholars who have edited texts for the main competitors.

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