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Revising Shakespeare (Hardcover, New)
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Revising Shakespeare (Hardcover, New)
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In "Revising Shakespeare" Grace Ioppolo addresses the question of
Shakespeare's "integrity". Through analysis of variant texts
spanning the history of the plays, she arrives at an interpretation
of Shakespeare as author and reviser. Ioppolo stars with the
physical text. As textual studies of "King Lear" have shown, the
text of Shakespeare is not as given. The "text" is nearly always a
revision of another text. Critics can no longer evaluate plots,
structure, and themes, nor can scholars debate what constitutes (or
how to establish) a copy-text that stands as the "most
authoritative" version of a Shakespeare play, without reconsidering
the implications of revision for traditional and modern
interpretations. Ioppolo examines the evidence provided by dramatic
manuscripts and early printed texts of Shakespeare and his
contemporaries. Gradually we see how a recognition of the diverse
facts regarding authorial revision leads to basic changes in how we
study, edit, and teach Shakespeare. Ioppolo places the textural
revolution in a broad historical, theatrical, textual and literacy
context. She presents textual studies which show Shakespeare and
other Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists at work revising
themselves, their plays, and their audiences. She concludes that
both textual and literacy critics must now re-evaluate and redefine
the idea of the "text" as well as that of the "author"; the "text"
is no longer editiorially or theoretically composite or finite, but
multiple and ever-revising. In addition, Ioppolo produces a new
conception of Shakespeare as a creator and recreator, viewer and
reviewer, writer and rewriter of his dramatic world.
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