Shakespeare in Print
Shakespeare in Print
CAD$99.95
Shakespeare in Print is a comprehensive 2003 account of Shakespeare publishing and an indispensable research resource. Andrew Murphy sets out the history of the Shakespeare text from the Renaissance through to the twenty-first century, from the twin perspectives of editing and publishing history. Murphy tackles issues of editorial and textual theory in an accessible and engaging manner. He draws on a wide range of archival materials and attends to topics little explored by previous scholars, such as the importance of Scottish and Irish editions in the eighteenth century, the rise of the educational edition and the history and significance of mass-market editions. The extensive appendix is an invaluable reference tool which provides full publishing details of all single-text Shakespeare editions up to 1709 and all collected editions up to 1821. The listing also provides details of a selected range of major editions beyond these dates to the present day.
- A narrative overview of the publishing history of Shakespeare's works
- Substantial chronological listing of major editions of Shakespeare since the early quartos
- Draws extensively on publishing company records
Reviews & endorsements
"Every once in a while, a new study is published whose usefulness is so obvious and its interest such that one can only wonder why no one else has attempted to fill the gap before. Andrew Murphy's Shakespeare in Print is a case in point. It offers no less than the first-ever history of Shakespeare publishing and editing from the late sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. [...] Not content to produce an indispensable reference work, he has simultaneously written an immensely entertaining narrative that makes for compulsive reading. [This book is] not only the authoritative scholarly history of Shakespeare publishing and editing but also a page-turner which many readers will find difficult to put down." Around the Globe (UK)
"This is an exciting book... [Murphy's] book is an attempt 'to meld editing and publishing history, in order to produce as multifaceted an account of the history of the reproduction of the Shakespeare text as possible.' The author succeeds brilliantly... Murphy's study contains a plethora of information and constitutes a major achievement." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
"Andrew Murphy generally allows his history to speak for itself and resists making judgements, but what he has done is important, and his very readable and well-organized book will find a place in any courses on editing and bibliography, and should appeal to a much wider audience" - Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, R.A. Foakes
Product details
November 2007Paperback
9780521046008
520 pages
228 × 152 × 30 mm
0.774kg
1 b/w illus. 5 tables
Available
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Part I. Text: Introduction
- 1. The early quartos
- 2. Early collected editions
- 3. The Tonson era 1: Rowe to Warburton
- 4. The Tonson era 2: Johnson to Malone
- 5. Copyright disputes: English publishers
- 6. Copyright disputes: Scottish and Irish publishers
- 7. American editions
- 8. Nineteenth-century popular editions
- 9. Nineteenth-century scholarly editions
- 10. The New Bibliography
- 11. The later twentieth century
- Conclusion - twenty-first-century Shakespeares
- Part II. Appendix: Introduction to the appendix
- Chronological appendix
- Index 1: by play/poem title
- Index 2: by series title
- Index 3: by editor
- Index 4: by publisher
- Index 5: by place (excluding London)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Main Index.
