Sonia Massai's central claim in this book is that the texts of
early printed editions of Renaissance drama, including
Shakespeare's, did not simply 'degenerate' or 'corrupt' over time,
as subsequent editions were printed using the immediate predecessor
as their basis. By focusing on early correctors of dramatic texts
for the press, this book identifies a previously overlooked
category of textual agents involved in the process of their
transmission into print. Massai also challenges the common
assumption that the first editor of Shakespeare was Nicholas Rowe,
who published his edition of Shakespeare's Works in 1709. The study
offers a 'prehistory' of editing from the rise of English drama in
print at the beginning of the sixteenth century to the official
rise of the editorial tradition of Shakespeare at the beginning of
the eighteenth century.
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