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  title info:
    title: How to read a Shakespearean play text
  name:
    name part: Giddens, Eugene.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This is an invaluable introductory guide for the English student who needs to decipher a page from a play, or a facsimile equivalent, from the Shakespearean period. The original quartos and folios of early play texts are increasingly subject to editorial and critical scrutiny, and electronic facsimiles are making the originals accessible to undergraduate and graduate students. Giddens provides a practical 'how to' guide to the original printed texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He explains how the features of the play text came about, what the different elements mean, and who created them. The book provides that important first step towards bibliography and critical editing, presenting a detailed account of how to read these early texts and how they have been turned into the modern editions we are accustomed to.
  abstract: This book offers a detailed consideration of how Shakespearean play texts came about, including the material constraints and cultures of performance, publishing, printing, and reading that produced them. It then considers how these conditions impact upon reading early printed play texts. This is not a book for trained bibliographers. Instead, it outlines bibliographical insights and techniques to those who have engaged in the study of early printed play texts without having yet undertaken a course on bibliography. Jerome McGann pointed out in 1985 that 'textual/bibliographical studies, already conceived as "preliminary operations," are all but removed from the programme of literary studies' (McGann 1985, 181). McGann's claim is still true today, as bibliography is infrequently taught in undergraduate, masters and PhD programs in English. Although Ann Thompson and Gordon McMullan argue that 'the recent explosion of work' in 'editing and textual criticism' has brought them 'from the periphery of English studies to the much-debated centre' (2003 Thompson and McMullan: xvi-xvii), this enhanced critical interest has not been matched by increases in training for those not already entrenched within the profession.
  table of contents: 1. The creation and circulation of play texts -- 2. The features of play texts -- 3. Reading the originals -- 4. Reading modern editions.
  note: Eugene Giddens.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Criticism, Textual
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Authorship
  classification: PR2976 .G49 2011
  classification: 822.3/3
  identifier: 9780521713979 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0521713978 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9780521886406 (hardback)
  identifier: 0521886406 (hardback)
  identifier: 2010048071
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 101123
    record change date: 20151202121125.0
    record identifier: in00002662307