Shakespeare / Text

by Claire M. L. Bourne

"Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each essay challenges a single entrenched binary-such as book/theater, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital, and original/copy-that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze, teach, perform, and edit Shakespeare today. Drawing on methods from book history, bibliography, theater studies, editorial theory, library science, the digital humanities, and literary criticism, the...