Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays offers a vital contribution to this critical debate, and examines its wider implications for how we conceive of Shakespeare and his works.
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Richard Wilson, Jane Rickard, and Richard Meek
Part I Books
1. ‘An index and obscure prologue’: Books and theatre in Shakespeare’s literary authorship - Patrick Cheney
2. ‘A Man in Print’?: Shakespeare and the Representation of the Press - Helen Smith
3. ‘Penned Speech’: Seeing and Not Seeing in King Lear - Richard Meek
4. ‘A Stringless Instrument’: Richard II and the Defeat of Poetry - Richard Wilson
Part II Texts
5. Foucault’s Epistemic Shift and Verbatim Repetition in Shakespeare - Gabriel Egan
6. ‘As sharp as a Pen’: Henry V and its texts - Duncan Salkeld
7. Shakespeare’s Deletions and False Starts, Mark 2 - E. A. J. Honigmann
Part III Readers
8. The First Folio: ‘My Shakespeare’/‘Our Shakespeare’: Whose Shakespeare? - George Donaldson
9. The ‘First’ Folio in Context: The Folio Collections of Shakespeare, Jonson and King James - Jane Rickard
10. A New Early Reader of Shakespeare - Stanley Wells
11. ‘Too long for a play’: Shakespeare Beyond Page and Stage - John Lyon
Afterword - Lukas Erne
Index
