Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary – such as book/theatre, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital and original/copy – that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze, teach, perform and edit Shakespeare today.
Drawing on methods from book history, bibliography, editorial theory, library science, the digital humanities, theatre studies and literary criticism, the collection as a whole proposes that our understanding of Shakespeare – and early modern drama more broadly – changes radically when 'either/or' approaches to the Shakespearean text are reconfigured. The chapters in Shakespeare / Text make strong cases for challenging received wisdom and offer new, portable methods of treating 'the text', in its myriad instantiations, that will be useful to scholars, editors, theatre practitioners, teachers and librarians.
INTRODUCTION SHAKESPEARE / TEXT by Claire M. L. Bourne I INCLUSIVE / EXCLUSIVE 1. FAIR / FOUL by B. K. Adams (Arizona State University, USA) 2. TEXT / PARATEXT by Hannah August (Massey University, New Zealand) 3. PUBLIC / PRIVATE by Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich (Ohio State University, USA) 4. EDITION / TRANSLATION by Régis Augustus Bars Closel (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil) 5. CANON / APOCRYPHA by Aleida Auld (University of Geneva, Switzerland) II BEFORE / AFTER 6. NOW / THEN by Andy Kesson (University of Roehampton, UK) 7. MISCELLANY / SEQUENCE by Megan Heffernan (DePaul University, USA) 8. ORIGINAL / COPY by Dianne Mitchell (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) 9. SOURCE / ADAPTATION by Sujata Iyengar (University of Georgia, USA) 10. LIFE / AFTERLIFE by Margaret Jane Kidnie (University of Western Ontario, Canada) III AUTHORIZED / UNAUTHORIZED 11. BOOK / THEATRE by Holger Schott Syme (University of Toronto, Canada) 12. TEXT-BASED / CONCEPT-DRIVEN by Katherine Steele Brokaw (University of California, Merced, USA) 13. SENSE / NONSENSE by Rebecca L. Fall (Independent Scholar, USA) 14. FACT / FICTION by Adam G. Hooks (University of Iowa, USA) 15. PART / WHOLE by Paul Salzman (La Trobe University, Australia) IV PRESENT / ABSENT 16. BLACK / WHITE by Miles P. Grier (Queens College, City University of New York, USA) 17. EXTANT / EPHEMERAL by Scott A. Trudell (University of Maryland, USA) 18. LOST / FOUND by Misha Teramura (University of Toronto, Canada) 19. PAPER / INK by Emma Depledge (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) 20. MATERIAL / DIGITAL by Zachary Lesser & Whitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Bibliography Index
Claire M. L. Bourne is Associate Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Her teaching and research focus on early modern drama, book history, textual editing, and theatre studies. She is the author of Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England (2020) and has published extensively on book design and the history of reading. She is editing Henry VI, Part 1, for the Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series, and is collaborating with Jason Scott- Warren (University of Cambridge) on a series of projects related to the Free Library of Philadelphia’s copy of the Shakespeare First Folio annotated by John Milton.
