Shakespearean Suspect Texts: The 'Bad' Quartos and Their Contexts

by Laurie Maguire

Book Overview

There are forty-one problematic play texts, variously classified as bad quartos or memorial reconstructions, from Shakespeare's time. Textual criticism of these quartos has been fraught with assumption and contradiction. Maguire examines all the texts in detail. She deconstructs the theories of W.W. Greg and his followers, scrutinizing the methods by which critics diagnose texts as bad, and examines the historical evidence for the concept of memorial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521033489
• ISBN13: 9780521033480
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"