Shakespeare's 'lady editors' : a new history of the Shakespearean text /
The basic history of the Shakespearean editorial tradition is familiar and well-established. For nearly three centuries, men, most of them white and financially privileged, ensconced themselves in private and hard-to-access libraries, hammering out 'their' versions of Shakespeare's te...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2022].
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| Summary: | The basic history of the Shakespearean editorial tradition is familiar and well-established. For nearly three centuries, men, most of them white and financially privileged, ensconced themselves in private and hard-to-access libraries, hammering out 'their' versions of Shakespeare's text. They produced enormous, learned tomes, monuments to their author's greatness and their own reputations. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-325) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316518359 1316518353 9781009001120 1009001124 |