Shakespeare and Textual Studies

Description

Shakespeare and Textual Studies gathers contributions from the leading specialists in the fields of manuscript and textual studies, book history, editing, and digital humanities to provide a comprehensive reassessment of how manuscript, print and digital practices have shaped the body of works that we now call 'Shakespeare'. This cutting-edge collection identifies the legacies of previous theories and places special emphasis on the most recent developments in the editing of Shakespeare since the 'turn to materialism' in the late twentieth century. Providing a wide-ranging overview of current approaches and debates, the book explores Shakespeare's poems and plays in light of new evidence, engaging scholars, editors, and book historians in conversations about the recovery of early composition and publication, and the ongoing appropriation and transmission of Shakespeare's works through new technologies.

Margaret Jane Kidnie is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation and her edition of Philip Stubbes: The Anatomie of Abuses won Honorable Mention from the MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions. She has also edited Jonson for Oxford University Press and her edition of Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness was published in 2015. Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama, which she co-edited with Lukas Erne, was nominated Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement. Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at King's College London. She has published widely in the fields of Shakespeare Textual Studies and the Editing of Shakespeare, including The Rise of the Editor (Cambridge, 2007), an Arden Early Modern Drama edition of John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (2011) and an edition of Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 (Cambridge, 2014). She has also contributed to refereed journals, such as Shakespeare Survey and Studies in English Literature, and to collections of essays on the textual transmission of Shakespeare.

'This collection is most insightful - essential reading for editors and textual scholars. Kidnie and Massai assemble the very best Shakespeareans to examine crucial debates about the origins, production and subsequent uses of Shakespeare's texts.' Eugene Giddens, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge