We know Shakespeare's writings only from imperfectly-made early
editions, from which editors struggle to remove errors. The New
Bibliography of the early twentieth century, refined with
technological enhancements in the 1950s and 1960s, taught
generations of editors how to make sense of the early editions of
Shakespeare and use them to make modern editions. This book is the
first complete history of the ideas that gave this movement its
intellectual authority, and of the challenges to that authority
that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. Working chronologically, Egan
traces the struggle to wring from the early editions evidence of
precisely what Shakespeare wrote. The story of another struggle,
between competing interpretations of the evidence from early
editions, is told in detail and the consequences for editorial
practice are comprehensively surveyed, allowing readers to discover
just what is at stake when scholars argue about how to edit
Shakespeare.
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