Unediting the Renaissance - Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton (Paperback)

Did Katherine in "The Taming of the Shrew" ever stay untamed? Many readers and students do not recognize the extent to which modern standard editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe and other Renaissance authors have been filtered through 18th-century and Victorian sensibilities. This volume reveals the array of possibilities opened up by "unediting" these texts. It shows how much the texts of early modern authors have altered and rigidified over time. It also demonstrates how modern interpretations and performances of such works can be injected with new energy by a recognition of the possibilities closed off by modern standard editions. This work aims to initiate debate about what makes a text "definitive", and should be of use to students and scholars of Renaissance studies, as well as general readers who wish to learn more about what goes on behind the "barbed wire" of textual apparatus in modern editions.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Leah Marcus
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-10053-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Promotions
LSN:	0-415-10053-4
Barcode:	9780415100533

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