Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-82255-8 (ISBN)
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In this 2003 study, Lukas Erne argues that Shakespeare, apart from being a playwright who wrote theatrical texts for the stage, was also a literary dramatist who produced reading texts for the page. The usual distinction that has been set up between Ben Jonson on the one hand, carefully preparing his manuscripts for publication, and Shakespeare the man of the theatre, writing for his actors and audience, indifferent to his plays as literature, is questioned in this book. Examining the evidence from early published playbooks, Erne argues that Shakespeare wrote many of his plays with a readership in mind and that these 'literary' texts would have been abridged for the stage because they were too long for performance. The variant early texts of Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Hamlet are shown to reveal important insights into the different media for which Shakespeare designed his plays.
Lukas Erne teaches English literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of Beyond The Spanish Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (2001), and of a number of articles published in Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, Essays in Criticism, Theatre Research International, and elsewhere.
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Publication: 1. The legitimation of printed playbooks in Shakespeare's time; 2. The making of 'Shakespeare'; 3. Shakespeare and the publication of his plays (I): the late sixteenth century; 4. Shakespeare and the publication of his plays (II): the early seventeenth century; 5. The players' alleged opposition to print; Part II. Texts: 6. Why size matters: 'the two hours' traffic of our stage' and the length of Shakespeare's plays; 7. Editorial policy and the length of Shakespeare's plays; 8. 'Bad' quartos and their origins: Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Hamlet; 9. Theatricality, literariness and the texts of Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Hamlet; Appendix A: the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in print, 1584–1623; Appendix B: Heminge and Condell's 'Stolne, and surreptitious copies' and the Pavier quartos; Appendix C: Shakespeare and the circulation of dramatic manuscripts; Select bibliography; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.3.2003 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 12 Halftones, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 640 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-82255-6 / 0521822556 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-82255-8 / 9780521822558 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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