William Shakespeare: A Textual CompanionAn indespensable companion to The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition, this is the most comprehensive reference work on Shakespearean textual problems ever compiled in a single volume. William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion provides a wealth of information about the problems presented by texts and the processes by which editorial decisions are reached. The General Introduction discusses the critical and theoretical issues raised by different kinds of editions, the nature of early manuscripts, printed texts, and the evidence for the canon and chronology of Shakespeare's works. It also offers a concise history of the editing of Shakespeare and sets forth the editorial principles of the Oxford Edition. Included for each work, are an introduction, textual notes, press variants, discussions of emendations and problems of modernization, plausible alternative readings, and a letter-by-letter reprint of the stage directions in the control text, among other materials. -- |
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Contents
THE CANON AND CHRONOLOGY OF SHAKESPEARES PLAYS | 69 |
SUMMARY OF CONTROLTEXTS | 145 |
WORKS CITED | 158 |
The First Part of the Contention 2 Henry VI | 175 |
Richard Duke of York 3 Henry VI | 197 |
Henry VI | 217 |
Venus and Adonis | 264 |
A Midsummer Nights Dream | 279 |
Sonnets and A Lovers Complaint | 444 |
Sir Thomas More | 461 |
Othello | 476 |
Alls Well That Ends Well | 492 |
King Lear | 509 |
The Tragedy of King Lear Folio | 529 |
Macbeth | 543 |
Pericles | 556 |
Richard II | 306 |
The Merchant of Venice | 323 |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | 340 |
Much Ado About Nothing | 371 |
Julius Caesar | 386 |
Twelfth Night | 421 |
Coriolanus | 593 |
The Tempest | 612 |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | 625 |
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Common terms and phrases
Additional Passages Alarum alternative annotated appears attributed authorship bad quarto BEPD CAIRNCROSS CAPELL Catesby compositor conjecture copy Cymbeline dialogue Duke of York DYCE edition conj edition G.T. editors Edward elsewhere emendation Enter error evidence Exeunt Exit Folio Folio text foul papers Greg Hamlet HANMER haue heauen Henry Henry VI interpolation Iohn John King King Lear Lear Lord loue Love's Labour's Lost Malone manuscript McKerrow memorial metrical misreading occurs omission omitted Othello Pandarus parallels Pericles play play's poems POPE prefix Prince printed probably prompt-book quarto Queene reading revision Richard Richard III Romeo ROWE scene scribal scribe seems sense Shake Shakespearian Shrew Sonnets speare's speech speech-prefixes spelling stage directions subs suggests Taylor TEXTUAL NOTES theatrical thee THEOBALD Thomas thou title-page Titus Titus Andronicus Tragedy transcript Troilus Twelfth Night variant verse vpon Warwicke William Wilson word