Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays focuses attention on the broad issue of Renaissance textuality. It explores such topics as the position of the reader relative to the text; the impact of editorial strategies and modes of presentation on our understanding of the text; and the relevance of gender to the process of textual retrieval and preservation.
Table of ContentsList of figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Andrew Murphy
Essays, works and small poems: Samuel Daniel
John Pitcher
Hypertext and multiplicity: the medieval example
Graham D. Caie
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Gary Taylor
Anthologising the early modern female voice
Ramona Wray
(Un)editing and textual theory: positioning the reader
Michael Steppat
Margins of truth
Stephen Orgel
Naming, renaming and unnaming in the Shakepearean quartos and folio
Peter Stallybrass
Composition/decomposition: singular Shakespeare and the death of the author
Laurie E. Maguire
Biblebable
Graham Holderness, Stanley E. Porter and Carol Banks
Ghost writing: Hamlet and the ur-Hamlet
Emma Smith
Texts and textualities: a Shakespearean history
Andrew Murphy
Afterword: confessions of a reformed uneditor
Leah S. Marcus
Index
