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Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes - Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée
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Four years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of
London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a "collected
works" of William Shakespeare, not in an imposingly large format
but as a series of more humble quarto pamphlets. For mysterious
reasons, perhaps involving Shakespeare's playing company, the
King's Men, the project ran into trouble. In an attempt to salvage
it, information on the title pages of some of the playbooks was
falsified, making them resemble leftover copies of earlier
editions. The deception worked for nearly three hundred years,
until it was unmasked by scholars in the early twentieth century.
The discovery of these "Pavier Quartos," as they became known, was
a landmark success for the New Bibliography and played an important
role in establishing the validity and authority of that method of
analysis. While more recent scholars have reassessed the
traditional narrative that the New Bibliographers wrote, no one has
gone back to look at the primary evidence: the quartos themselves.
In Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes Zachary Lesser undertakes a
completely fresh study of these playbooks. Through an intensive
bibliographical analysis of over three hundred surviving quartos,
Lesser reveals evidence that has gone entirely unseen before:
"ghosts" (faint, oily impressions produced when one book is bound
next to another); "holes" (the tiny remains of the first simple
stitching that held pamphlets together); and "rips and scrapes"
(post-production alterations of title pages). This new
evidence—much of it visible only with the aid of enhanced
photographic methods—suggests that the "Pavier Quartos" are far
more mysterious, with far more consequential ramifications for book
history and Shakespeare scholarship than we have thought.
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Imprint: |
University of PennsylvaniaPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2024 |
Authors: |
Zachary Lesser
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5128-2608-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5128-2608-1 |
Barcode: |
9781512826081 |
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