Description
A cutting-edge and comprehensive reassessment of the theories, practices and archival evidence that shape editorial approaches to Shakespeare's texts.
About the Author
Margaret Jane Kidnie is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation and her edition of Philip Stubbes: The Anatomie of Abuses won Honorable Mention from the MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions. She has also edited Jonson for Oxford University Press and her edition of Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness was published in 2015. Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama, which she co-edited with Lukas Erne, was nominated Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement. Sonia Massai is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at King's College London. She has published widely in the fields of Shakespeare Textual Studies and the Editing of Shakespeare, including The Rise of the Editor (Cambridge, 2007), an Arden Early Modern Drama edition of John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (2011) and an edition of Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 (Cambridge, 2014). She has also contributed to refereed journals, such as Shakespeare Survey and Studies in English Literature, and to collections of essays on the textual transmission of Shakespeare.
Reviews
'This collection is most insightful - essential reading for editors and textual scholars. Kidnie and Massai assemble the very best Shakespeareans to examine crucial debates about the origins, production and subsequent uses of Shakespeare's texts.' Eugene Giddens, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Book Information
ISBN 9781009045490
Author Margaret Jane Kidnie
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 710g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 151mm * 25mm