Reading readings
Subtitle: essays on Shakespeare editing in the eighteenth century
By: edited by Joanna Gondris.
Contributors: Gondris, Joanna, 1959-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism, Textual.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 18th century.; Editing -- History -- 18th century.
Description: Reading Readings brings together essays by eighteen critics and textual scholars on texts that play a crucially informative role in the history of Shakespeare reception: the eighteenth-century editions. These texts tell, in extraordinary detail, the response of the age that granted Shakespeare his canonical status. They show, too, the development of a new range of critical and bibliographical practices, and display the workings of influential eighteenth-century cultural and market forces.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.