Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus

by Margreta de Grazia

This study challenges traditional treatments of Shakespeare through a study of their textual imperatives in the late eighteenth century. The examination of earlier treatments demonstrates that concepts now basic to Shakespeare were once largely irrelevant. Only with Edmond Malone's 1790 Shakespeare edition do such criteria as authenticity, historical periodization, factual biography, chronological development, and in-depth reading become necessary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198117787
• ISBN13: 9780198117780
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.1"