{"product_id":"the-struggle-for-shakespeares-text-twentieth-century-editorial-theory-and-practice-hardback-9780521889179","title":"The Struggle for Shakespeare's Text; Twentieth-Century Editorial Theory and Practice (Hardback) 9780521889179","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Struggle for Shakespeare's Text\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTwentieth-Century Editorial Theory and Practice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEgan traces a century of arguments about editing Shakespeare's plays, revealing what's at stake in presenting them to modern readers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGabriel Egan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521889179, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 October 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e332 pages, 2 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16.1 x 2.1 cm, 0.7 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'An eminently readable guide to all the key concepts and tools in engaging with Shakespeare's text.' Around the Globe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWe know Shakespeare's writings only from imperfectly-made early editions, from which editors struggle to remove errors. The New Bibliography of the early twentieth century, refined with technological enhancements in the 1950s and 1960s, taught generations of editors how to make sense of the early editions of Shakespeare and use them to make modern editions. This book is the first complete history of the ideas that gave this movement its intellectual authority, and of the challenges to that authority that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. Working chronologically, Egan traces the struggle to wring from the early editions evidence of precisely what Shakespeare wrote. The story of another struggle, between competing interpretations of the evidence from early editions, is told in detail and the consequences for editorial practice are comprehensively surveyed, allowing readers to discover just what is at stake when scholars argue about how to edit Shakespeare.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The fall of pessimism and the rise of New Bibliography, 1902–42\u003cbr\u003e 2. New techniques and the Virginian School: New Bibliography, 1939–68\u003cbr\u003e 3. New Bibliography, 1969–79\u003cbr\u003e Intermezzo: the rise and fall of the theory of memorial reconstruction\u003cbr\u003e 4. New Bibliography critiqued and revised, 1980–90\u003cbr\u003e 5. The 'new' New Bibliography: the Oxford Complete Works, 1978–89\u003cbr\u003e 6. Materialism, unediting and version-editing, 1990–99\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: the twenty-first century\u003cbr\u003e Appendix I. How early-modern books were made: a brief guide\u003cbr\u003e Appendix II. Table of Shakespeare editions up to 1623\u003cbr\u003e Appendix III. Editorial principles of the major twentieth-century Shakespeare editions\u003cbr\u003e Works cited.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Shakespeare plays [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Shakespeare plays\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Shakespeare%20plays%20%5BDDS%5D%22\"\u003eDDS\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature \u0026amp; literary studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature \u0026amp; literary studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature%20\u0026amp;%20literary%20studies%20%5BD%5D%22\"\u003eD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005438382360,"sku":"9780521889179","price":53.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521889179i_adcf5366-8c19-4596-bc9f-4af6fd130473.jpg?v=1691358919","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-struggle-for-shakespeares-text-twentieth-century-editorial-theory-and-practice-hardback-9780521889179","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}