Shakespeare's First Folio 1623-2023 : text and afterlives / edited by Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bauer, Matthias, 1958- editor.

Zirker, Angelika, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Bibliography--Folios. 1623.

Shakespeare, William.

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

Printing--England--London--History--17th century.

Printing.

Literature publishing--England--London--History--17th century.

Literature publishing.

Genre:

Essays.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : The Arden Shakespeare, 2024.

Summary:

"This wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, and on how the now iconic book has been continually reimagined after its initial publication to the present day. Bringing together a set of ground-breaking essays by international scholars, chapters consider reader-assembled volumes as precursors to the Folio; the poetic identity of Shakespeare; and how crises and successes in the early modern printing house shaped Shakespeare's text. Others examine its often surprising afterlives, and how it became the basis of Shakespeare's unique position in literary history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

To think these trifles some-thing' : introduction / Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker

Alternative collections : Shakespeare beyond the First Folio / Ben Higgins

'All his comedies, histories, and tragedies' : the (in)complete works of Shakespeare / David Scott Kastan

First Folio blunders in picture, poems and plays / Tiffany Stern

The First Folio as a sacred text / Matthias Bauer and Anglika Zirker

'The famous scenicke poet': Ben Jonson, Hugh Holland and poetic identity in the First Folio / Tom Cook

'The folio of this world' : creation and literary heritage in Ulysses / Claudia Ok

The First Folio in Spain : the Gondomar case / Jennifer Ruiz-Morgan

On the Meisei First Folios / Noriko Sumimoto

To particularize their abundance : the Folger First Folios studied and shared as a collection / Greg Prickman

Afterword : Folio raiders / Emma Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Shakespeare's First Folio 1623-2023.

ISBN:

9781350436367

1350436364

9781350436404

1350436402

OCLC:

1421936851