The tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra / by William Shakespeare ; prepared and annotated by Neil Freeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Contributor:

Freeman, Neil.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (Firm))

The Applause Shakespeare library. Folio texts

Applause first folio editions

Standardized Title:

Antony and Cleopatra

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C--Drama.

Antonius, Marcus.

Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C.

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C--Drama.

Cleopatra.

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

lv pages, 138 leaves, 7 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Applause, 1999.

Summary:

The First Folio of 1623 was prepared for print by two members of Shakespeare's acting troupe -- John Hemings and Henry Condell -- which included comic actor Will Kemp and the great tragedian Richard Burbage. In a fascinating and detailed introduction, Freeman points out that because Shakespeare and his colleagues wrote from a rhetorical tradition -- a society where the emphasis was on the spoken word -- he wrote with an eye to how he wanted his plays performed, giving as much direction as possible to his actors. Freeman looks at what is known of the printing of that First Folio and analyzes the variations between the First Folio, later Folios, Quarto editions (where available) and modern editions of the plays. He examines the "corrections" made by editors over the centuries that have shaped the way we perceive Shakespeare today -- from the regularization of verse, to the changes from prose to verse (and vice versa) and the standardization of character prefixes.

Contents:

Definitions of and Guide to Photographic Copies of the Early Texts v

Welcome to these Scripts vii

Making Full Use of these Texts x

What Modern Changes will be Shown x

Words and phrases x

Line structure changes related to problems of 'casting-off' x

Lines structure changes not related to problems of 'casting-off' xi

The special problems affecting what are known as 'shared' or 'split' verse lines xii

The unusual single split line xv

Sentence and Punctuation Structures xvi

Dropping a line to illustrate F1's sentence structure xvii

The highlighting of the major punctuation in these texts xix

Practical On-Page Help for the Reader xxii

The Visual Symbols Highlighting Modern Alterations xxii

The Visual Symbols Highlighting Key Items within the First Folio xxv

Act, Scene, and Line Numbering Specific to this Text xxvi

One Modern Change Frequently Noted in These Texts xxxv

The Play

Introduction to The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra xxxix

The Text 1

The Uneasy Relationship of Folio, Quarto, and Modern Texts 141.

Notes:

"An Applause original"--T.p. verso

ISBN:

155783377X

OCLC:

42870450