Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare’s Drama (review)

Abstract

List of illustrations Preface List of contributors Introduction Lukas Erne and Margaret Jane Kidnie Part I. Establishing the Text: 1. The two texts of Othello and early modern constructions of race Leah S. Marcus 2. 'Work of permanent utility': editors and texts, authorities and originals H. R. Woudhuysen 3. Housmania: episodes in twentieth-century 'critical' editing of Shakespeare Paul Werstine 4. Addressing adaptation: Measure for Measure and Sir Thomas More John Jowett 5. The New Bibliography and its critics Ernst Honigmann 6. Scholarly editing and the shift from print to electronic cultures Sonia Massai Part II. Presenting the Play: 7. 'Your sum of parts': doubling in Hamlet Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor 8. The perception of error: the editing and the performance of the opening of Coriolanus Michael Warren 9. Modern spelling: the hard choices David Bevington 10. The staging of Shakespeare's drama in print editions Margaret Jane Kidnie 11. Open stage, open page? Editing stage directions in early dramatic texts John D. Cox 12. Two varieties of digital commentary John Lavagnino 13. New collaborations with old plays: the (textual) politics of performance commentary Barbara Hodgdon Index.