HOW TO READ A SHAKESPEAREAN PLAY TEXT by Dr. Eugene Giddens (Editor) ( 9780521713979 )

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Title:

HOW TO READ A SHAKESPEAREAN PLAY TEXT

By:

Dr. Eugene Giddens (Editor)

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521713978

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9780521713979

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

10 February, 2011

Pages:

198

Description:

An invaluable introductory guide for students on how to engage with the original printed texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Synopsis:

This is an invaluable introductory guide for the English student who needs to decipher a page from a play, or a facsimile equivalent, from the Shakespearean period. The original quartos and folios of early play texts are increasingly subject to editorial and critical scrutiny, and electronic facsimiles are making the originals accessible to undergraduate and graduate students. Giddens provides a practical 'how to' guide to the original printed texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He explains how the features of the play text came about, what the different elements mean, and who created them. The book provides that important first step towards bibliography and critical editing, presenting a detailed account of how to read these early texts and how they have been turned into the modern editions we are accustomed to.

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22 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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