Facsimiles and the history of Shakespeare editing /
Is a facsimile an edition? In answering this question in relation to Shakespeare, and to early modern writing in general, the author explores the interrelationship between the beginning of the conventional process of collecting and editing Shakespeare's plays and the increasing sophistication o...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2023].
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare and text.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What is a facsimile and why does it matter?
- 1. The prehistory of facsimiles: eighteenth-century editing
- 2. Searching for reproduction: traced and type-facsimiles
- 3. The photographic era
- 4. New bibliography, new facsimiles
- 5. The Hinman folio facsimile and reproduction as a manipulated ideal text
- 6. The microfilm revolution
- 7. The resilience of books and the resurrection of old editions
- 8. Screen and page: digital facsimiles
- 9. New textualism and the exploded original
- 10. Endless facsimiles and the Shakespeare original(s)
- Coda
- Glossary.