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); collaborative textual production (Shakespeare and his
transcribers and printers). What this leaves unaccounted for, is
the form of collaboration that affects more than any other our
modern reading experience of Shakespeare's plays: what we read as
Shakespeare now always comes to us in the form of a collaborative
enterprise - and is decisively shaped by the nature of the
collaboration - between Shakespeare and his modern editors.Contrary
to much recent criticism, this book suggests that modern textual
mediators have a positive rather than negative role: they are not
simply 'pimps of discourse' or cultural tyrants whose oppressive
interventions we need to 'unedit' but collaborators who can
decisively shape and enable our response to Shakespeare's
plays.Erne argues that any reader of Shakespeare, scholar, student,
or general reader, approaches Shakespeare through modern editions
that have an endlessly complicated and fascinating relationship to
what Shakespeare may actually have intended and written, that
modern editors determine what that relationship is, and that it is
generally a very good thing that they do so. "Shakespeare Now!" is
a series of short books that engage imaginatively and often
provocatively with the possibilities of Shakespeare's plays. It
goes back to the source - the most living language imaginable - and
recaptures the excitement, audacity and surprise of Shakespeare. It
will return you to the plays with opened eyes.
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