"A Certain Text": Close Readings and Textual Studies on Shakespeare and Others in Honor of Thomas ClaytonThis collection takes its title from 'Romeo and Juliet' (4.1.21.) when, meeting Paris in Friar Lawrence's cell, Juliet muses, What must be shall be, and the Friar completes her line with, That's a certain text. Where text means a received truth both Friar Lawrence and Clayton are interested skeptics. This essays gathered here reflect this attitude, questioning received ideas about the activities to which Clayton has devoted his professional life- literary editing and the close reading of literary works. |
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Page 74
... reference to his " scirted page . " Since the instruction lists simply " Page , " there has been some confusion over whether Master Page or Robin the Page is meant ( Oliver , xxxix ) , but Falstaff's exit line surely clarifies the reference ...
... reference to his " scirted page . " Since the instruction lists simply " Page , " there has been some confusion over whether Master Page or Robin the Page is meant ( Oliver , xxxix ) , but Falstaff's exit line surely clarifies the reference ...
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... reference is to a common gesture of contempt in which a bully pulled one hair from an adversary's beard and tossed it away casually . The pain of having a hair jerked from one's skin is sharp but petty - is not dignified pain— and the ...
... reference is to a common gesture of contempt in which a bully pulled one hair from an adversary's beard and tossed it away casually . The pain of having a hair jerked from one's skin is sharp but petty - is not dignified pain— and the ...
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... reference into the easy business of understanding the line as a reference to a common- place insult . That is purely wonderful . I suspect that my readers will be somewhat less excited by the accomplishment of " plucks off my beard ...
... reference into the easy business of understanding the line as a reference to a common- place insult . That is purely wonderful . I suspect that my readers will be somewhat less excited by the accomplishment of " plucks off my beard ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
Modernizing the Printed PlayText in Jacobean | 18 |
The Dram of Eale | 29 |
Copyright | |
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