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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early printed books--Great Britain--Bibliography.

Early printed books.

English imprints.

Great Britain--Imprints.

Great Britain.

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Bibliography.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Chronology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (519 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first ever comprehensive account of the way in which Shakespeare's texts have been edited and published from the Renaissance through to our own time. Murphy discusses all of the major scholarly editions and also attends to mass market popular texts, ranging widely across the rich field of Shakespeare publishing.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The early quartos; 2 Early collected editions; 3 The Tonson era 1: Rowe to Warburton; 4 The Tonson era 2: Johnson to Malone; 5 Copyright disputes: English publishers; 6 Copyright disputes: Scottish and Irish publishers; 7 American editions; 8 Nineteenth-century popular editions; 9 Nineteenth-century scholarly editions; 10 The New Bibliography; 11 The later twentieth century; Conclusion Twenty-first century Shakespeares; Introduction to the appendix; Chronological appendix

Index 1 By play/poem titleIndex 2 By series title; Index 3 By editor; Index 4 By publisher; Index 5 By place of publication (excluding London); Notes; Bibliography; Manuscript and archive materials; Printed materials; Main index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780511205859

1-316-08535-X

1-280-16017-9

0-511-11832-5

0-511-06667-8

0-511-20585-6

0-511-30859-0

0-511-06880-8

OCLC:

57218469