Shakespeare in Print
A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing

A comprehensive 2003 account of the way in which Shakespeare's texts have been edited and published.

Andrew Murphy (Author)

9780521046008, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 November 2007

520 pages, 1 b/w illus. 5 tables
22.8 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.774 kg

' … an immensely readable and engaging narrative … remarkable achievement …' Journal of the Printing Historical Society

Shakespeare in Print is a comprehensive 2003 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 details of a selected range of major editions beyond these dates to the present day.

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Part I. Text: 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
Part II. Appendix: Introduction to the appendix
Chronological appendix
Index 1: by play/poem title
Index 2: by series title
Index 3: by editor
Index 4: by publisher
Index 5: by place (excluding London)
Notes
Bibliography
Main Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: plays & playwrights [DSG]