Textual Performances

This important collection brings together leading scholars to examine crucial questions regarding the theory and practice of editing Shakespeare's plays. In particular, the essays look at how best to engage editorially with evidence provided by historical research into the playhouse, author's study and printing house. How are editors of playscripts to mediate history, in its many forms, for modern users? Considering our knowledge of the past is partial (in the senses both of incomplete and ideological) where are we to draw the line between legitimate editorial assistance and unwarranted interference? In what innovative ways might current controversies surrounding the mediation of Shakespeare's drama shape future editorial practice? Focusing on key points of debate and controversy, this collection makes a vital contribution to a better understanding of how editorial practice (on the page and in cyberspace) might develop in the twenty-first century.

ISBN 0521830958   Pages 248 ISBN13 9780521830959 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 540 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Hardback   Height (mm) 228 Publication date 13 May 2004   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress PR3071 .T485 2004   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY 822.33   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		List of illustrations
		Preface
		List of contributors
		Introduction by Lukas Erne and Margaret Jane Kidnie		1
1		The two texts of Othello and early modern constructions of race by Leah S. Marcus		21
2		'Work of permanent utility' : editors and texts, authorities and originals by H. R. Woudhuysen		37
3		Housmania : episodes in twentieth-century 'critical' editing of Shakespeare by Paul Werstine		49
4		Addressing adaptation : Measure for measure and Sir Thomas More by John Jowett		63
5		The New bibliography and its critics by Ernst Honigmann		77
6		Scholarly editing and the shift from print to electronic cultures by Sonia Massai		94
7		'Your sum of parts' : doubling in Hamlet by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor		111
8		The perception of error : the editing and the performance of the opening of Coriolanus by Michael Warren		127
9		Modern spelling : the hard choices by David Bevington		143
10		The staging of Shakespeare's drama in print editions by Margaret Jane Kidnie		158
11		Open stage, open page? : editing stage directions in early dramatic texts by John D. Cox		178
12		Two varieties of digital commentary by John Lavagnino		194
13		New collaborations with old plays : the (textual) politics of performance commentary by Barbara Hodgdon		210
		Index		224

'Written by scholars with an admirable sense of theatrical values, this wide-ranging and accessibly presented volume represents a cutting-edge contribution to the editorial debate about Shakespeare.' Stanley Wells '... the diversity of its approaches and methodologies makes it a stimulating and necessary guide which continuously draws the reader's attention to the ambivalences and inconsistencies of Shakespeare's text.' Modern Literary Review

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