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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yarn, Molly G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2022].
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The Mystery of Mrs Valentine
  • 'We Have Lost Our Labour': Recovering Women Editors of Shakespeare
  • 'It is My Lady's Hand': Female Collaborators and Ambiguous Literary Labour
  • Sidenote: On Women Editing Not-Shakespeare (or Not Editing)
  • 'Give Ear, Sir, to My Sister': Women Editors and Scholarly Networks in America
  • Sidenote: A Primer on Early Student Editions of Shakespeare
  • 'This Story the World May Read in Me': Biography and Bibliography
  • 'We Happy Few': Women and the New Bibliography.