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ISBN:
9780511553134
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There are forty-one problematic play texts, variously classified as 'bad quartos' or 'memorial reconstructions', from Shakespeare's time. Textual criticism of these quartos has been fraught with assumption and contradiction. Laurie Maguire examines all the texts in detail. She deconstructs the theories of W. W. Greg and his followers, scrutinizing the methods by which critics diagnose texts as 'bad', and examines the historical evidence for the concept of memorial reconstruction (compilation from the recollection of actors or spectators). The valuable contextual material includes fresh analysis of the New Bibliographers, the rise of English studies, Renaissance oral culture and textual problems in non-suspect texts. The assembly of textual information about all the suspect texts in tabular form makes the book an essential reference work. The result is a study which covers a vast textual subject without sacrificing detail
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Rise of the New Bibliography -- Men of science -- rise of English studies -- Defining bibliographical desiderata -- Contradictions -- Local habitations -- Contemporary challenges -- Memorial reconstruction and its discontents -- Greg and The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Greg and Two Elizabethan Stage Abridgements -- Leo Kirschbaum -- Harry R. Hoppe -- Reporting speech, reconstructing texts -- Reporting sermons and speeches -- Reporting plays -- Reporting Spanish golden-age drama -- Reporting plays (and prose) in the eighteenth century -- Memory -- Oral culture -- Narrative recall -- Folk ballads -- Commonplace books -- BBC Shakespeare -- Diagnosing memorial reconstruction: the Poem, the Play, the Text -- 'Tables ... stored full' -- Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521473644
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521033480
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Print version ISBN 9780521473644
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511553134
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