Facsimiles and the History of Shakespeare Editing
Facsimiles and the History of Shakespeare Editing
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GBPIs a facsimile an edition? In answering this question in relation to Shakespeare, and to early modern writing in general, the author explores the interrelationship between the beginning of the conventional process of collecting and editing Shakespeare's plays and the increasing sophistication of facsimiles. While recent scholarship has offered a detailed account of how Shakespeare was edited in the eighteenth century, the parallel process of the 'exact' reproduction of his texts has been largely ignored. The author will explain how facsimiles moved during the eighteenth and nineteenth century from hand drawn, traced, and type facsimiles to the advent of photographical facsimiles in the mid nineteenth century. Facsimiles can be seen as a barometer of the reverence accorded to the idea of an authentic Shakespeare text, and also of the desire to possess, if not original texts, then reproductions of them.
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June 2023Paperback
9781009228244
114 pages
178 × 123 × 10 mm
0.118kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: What is a Facsimile and Why Does It Matter?
- 1. The Pre-History of Facsimiles: Eighteenth-Century Editing
- 2. Searching for Reproduction: Traced and Type-Facsimiles
- 3. The Photographic Era
- 4. New Bibliography, New Facsimiles
- 5. The Hinman Folio Facsimile and Reproduction as a Manipulated Ideal Text
- 6. The Microfilm Revolution
- 7. The Resilience of Books and the Resurrection of Old Editions
- 8. Screen and Page: Digital Facsimiles
- 9. New Textualism and the Exploded Original
- 10. Endless Facsimiles and the Shakespeare Original(s)
- Coda
- Glossary.
