Shakespeare in print : a history and chronology of Shakespeare publishing / Andrew Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Andrew (Andrew D.)

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism, Textual.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism, Textual.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Bibliography.

Early printed books.

Great Britain.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Chronology.

Early printed books--Great Britain--Bibliography.

English imprints.

Great Britain--Imprints.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Chronologies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 503 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Shakespeare in Print is the first-ever comprehensive account of Shakespeare publishing and an indispensable research resource. Andrew Murphy sets out the history of the Shakespeare text from the Renaissance through to the twenty-first century, from the twin perspectives of editing and publishing history. Murphy tackles issues of editorial and textual theory in an accessible and engaging manner. He draws on a wide range of archival materials and attends to topics little explored by previous scholars, such as the importance of Scottish and Irish editions in the eighteenth century, the rise of the educational edition and the history and significance of mass-market editions. The extensive appendix is an invaluable reference tool which provides full publishing details of all single-text Shakespeare editions up to 1709 and all collected editions up to 1821. The listing also provides full details of a selected range of major editions beyond these dates to the present day.

Contents:

Part 1 Text

1 The early quartos 15

2 Early collected editions 36

3 The Tonson era 1: Rowe to Warburton 57

4 The Tonson era 2: Johnson to Malone 80

5 Copyright disputes: English publishers 101

6 Copyright disputes: Scottish and Irish publishers 121

7 American editions 142

8 Nineteenth-century popular editions 167

9 Nineteenth-century scholarly editions 188

10 The New Bibliography 208

11 The later twentieth century 237

Conclusion: Twenty-first century Shakespeares 261

Index 1 By play/poem title 387

Index 2 By series title 390

Index 3 By editor 392

Index 4 By publisher 400

Index 5 By place (excluding London) 409.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-486) and indexes.

ISBN:

0521771048

OCLC:

51861970

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