Argues that the Exclusion Crisis of 1678-82 should be considered the watershed moment in Shakespeare's authorial afterlife.
Shakespeare's rise to prominence was by no means inevitable. While he was popular in his lifetime, the number of new editions and revivals of his plays declined over the following decades. Emma Depledge uses the methodologies of book and theatre history to provide a re-assessmen…
This collection of essays examines early modern drama in the context of book history, and focuses on the readership of plays that opens different perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance.
Shakespeare's modern collaborators
by ProQuest (Firm), Erne, Lukas
fromShakespeare now!
Lukas Erne makes a controversial case for the modern editor as Shakespeare's collaborator because they make such an important contribution to what we read in modern editions and to how we read them.
Lukas Erne makes a controversial case for the modern editor as Shakespeare's collaborator because they make such an important contribution to what we read in modern editions and to how we read them.
Recent work in Shakespeare studies has brought to the forefront a variety of ways in which the collaborative nature of Shakespearean drama can be investigated: collaborative performance (Shakespeare and his fellow actors); collaborative writing (Shakespeare and his co-authors); …