A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture)

A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Note on Texts......Page 13
Introduction: What Happens in Hamlet?......Page 15
Part I Histories of the Books......Page 29
1 The Publishing Trade in Shakespeare’s Time......Page 31
2 Reading and Authorship: The Circulation of Shakespeare 1590–1619......Page 49
3 Shakespeare Writ Small: Early Single Editions of Shakespeare’s Plays......Page 71
4 The Life of the First Folio in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries......Page 85
Part II Theories of Editing......Page 105
5 The Birth of the Editor......Page 107
6 The Science of Editing......Page 123
7 Editing Shakespeare in a Postmodern Age......Page 142
8 Shakespeare and the Electronic Text......Page 159
Part III Practicalities......Page 177
9 Working with the Text: Editing in Practice......Page 179
10 Working with the Texts: Differential Readings......Page 199
11 Mapping Shakespeare’s Contexts: Doing Things with Databases......Page 218
Afterword......Page 235
Bibliography......Page 253
Index......Page 272