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Shakespeare and Manuscript Drama : Canon, Collaboration and Text by James Purkis (2018, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101107552109
ISBN-139781107552104
eBay Product ID (ePID)20038755581
Product Key Features
Number of Pages324 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameShakespeare and Manuscript Drama : Canon, Collaboration and Text
SubjectDrama, Shakespeare, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2018
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorJames Purkis
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2015-020983
Dewey Edition23
Reviews'This is a temperate, scrupulous and exhaustive study, which deserves a longer review. ... his meticulously detailed analyses, which represent a significant advance in our understanding of dramatic manuscripts generally, and Shakespeare's professional activities in particular.' Paul Dean, English Studies
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal822.3/3
Table Of ContentIntroduction; Part I. Text, Collaboration, Evidence: 1. The theatrical text and the new bibliography: John a Kent and John a Cumber; 2. 'Foul papers', 'prompt books', and textual sufficiency: The Captives; 3. Attribution, collaboration, and The Second Maiden's Tragedy; Part II. Shakespearean Coincidences: 4. Curious coincidences: the collaborations of Sir Thomas More; 5. Singularly Shakespearean: attributing the Hand-D addition of More; 6. Canon, apocrypha, and Sir Thomas More; Works cited; Index.
SynopsisThis book explores how Shakespeare wrote his plays and how the players revised them by examining manuscripts that have survived from use in early modern theatres. Looking at collaboration, theatre practice and the Shakespeare canon, it will greatly interest researchers and advanced students of Shakespeare studies, manuscript studies, and textual history., How did Shakespeare write his plays and how were they revised during their passage to the stage? James Purkis answers these questions through a fresh examination of often overlooked evidence provided by manuscripts used in early modern playhouses. Considering collaboration and theatre practice, this book explores manuscript plays by Anthony Munday, Thomas Middleton, and Thomas Heywood to establish new accounts of theatrical revision that challenge formerly dominant ideas in Shakespearean textual studies. The volume also reappraises Shakespeare's supposed part in the Sir Thomas More manuscript by analysing the palaeographic, orthographic, and stylistic arguments for Shakespeare's authorship of three of the document's pages. Offering a new account of manuscript writing that avoids conventional narrative forms, Purkis argues for a Shakespeare fully participant in a manuscript's collaborative process, demanding a reconsideration of his dramatic canon. The book will greatly interest researchers and advanced students of Shakespeare studies, textual history, authorship studies and theatre historians.
LC Classification NumberPR3071.P75 2015
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