Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-qxdb6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-25T16:39:31.573Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Part XXIII - Printing and Reception History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Andrew Murphy
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Get access

Keywords

Alexander, PeterArden Shakespeareauthorshipbad quartoBarthes, RolandBeaumont, FrancesBevington, DavidbibliographyBodleian LibraryBoswell, JamesBowdler, HenriettaCambridge University PressCapell, EdwardClark, WilliamClarke, Mary CowdenCollier, John PaynecopyrightCrane, Ralph“death of the author”Dicks, JohnDowden, EdwardDyce, AlexandereditingeditorsErne, LukasFirst FolioFletcher, JohnFolger Shakespeare LibraryFoucault, MichelFolioGlobe ShakespeareGlobe (playhouse)Greg, W. W.Halliwell-Phillipps, James OrchardHamletHand DHanmer, ThomasHenry IV, Part 2Hinman, CharltonHunter, JohnInternet Shakespeare EditionsIoppolo, GraceJohnson, SamuelJonson, BenJowett, JohnKing LearKing’s MenliteracyLounsbury, T. R.Love’s Labour’s LostMcKerrow, R. B.Malone, EdmondmanuscriptMassai, Soniamemorial reconstructionMethuen, A. M.New Cambridge ShakespeareOctavoOthelloOxford University PressperformancePericlesPollard, A. W.Pope, Alexanderpoststructuralismprintingprovenancepublic domainpublishingquartoreadingReed, IsaacrevisionRichard IIIRiverside ShakespeareRomeo and JulietRowe, Nicholasscientific methodShakespeare Quartos ArchiveShirley, JamesSir Thomas MoreSteevens, GeorgeTate, NahumTaylor, GaryTheobald, LewisTitus AndronicusTonson CartelTrinity College CambridgeTrinity College DublinTroilus and CressidaWarburton, WilliamWells, StanleyWhite, Richard GrantWilson, John DoverWright, William AldisadaptationantimetaboleBlackfriars (playhouse)Capell, EdwardcollaborationcollationcompositorconflationcopyistEarly English Books Online (EEBO)editingeditionfolioformatGlobe (playhouse)HamletHulme, HildaKing LearKing’s Men, Leech, CliffordLove’s Labour’s LostMacbethThe MalcontentMalone, EdmondMarston, JohnMiddleton, Thomasmodernized spellingmultitext playparadoxPeele, GeorgePope, Alexanderprinter’s copypunctuationquartorevisionrewritingRowe, NicholasSisson, C. J.syntaxTheobald, LewisTroilus and CressidaThe Two Noble KinsmenWilliams, Gordondigital textspopular textsprinting historyreception historyscholarly textsauthor, Condell, Henryeditingeditioneditorfacsimileintentionprintprinting housetexttextual criticismtextual theoryauthorshipcanoncomputersconcordancescopyrightdigital textse-bookfull-text searchingopen accesspublishingscholarly editingstylisticstextbookstextual editingvisualizationWorld Wide WebcensorshipdivisionholographintegralinvasionlonghandmonopolyOldcastlepalaeographyparti-eyedpromptbookrevisionsynopticvariantsArden 3 Tempestattenuated quartosBlayney, Peter W. M.Bowden, CharlesBowden, HenriettaCondell, HenryCrane, RalphCruxDavenant, WilliamDryden, JohnemendationexpurgationThe Family ShakespeareFirst Folio–only playsFurness, Horace HowardHeminges, JohnHinman, CharltonHoward-Hill, TrevorJaggard, WilliamJohnson, SamuelKittredge, George LymanKnight, CharlesLindley, DavidMalone, EdmondMowat, Barbara A.multiple-text playsNew BibliographyNew Cambridge TempestNew Folger TempestOrgel, StephenOxford TempestPope, AlexanderQuartosrelineationRoberts, Jeanne AddisonRowe, NicholasSeary, PeterShakespeare’s First Foliosingle-text playsThe TempestThe Tempest: or The Enchanted IsleTheobald, LewisVaughan, AldenVaughan, VirginiaWarburton, WilliamWerstine, Paul
Type
Chapter
Information
The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1611 - 1660
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Sources cited

Barthes, Roland. “The Death of the Author.” Image, Music, Text. Ed. and trans. Heath, Stephen. London: Fontana, 1977. 142–48.Google Scholar
Bent’s Literary Advertiser 233 (1823): 83.Google Scholar
Blayney, Peter. The First Folio of Shakespeare. Washington: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1991.Google Scholar
Bowdler, Henrietta, and Bowdler, Thomas, eds. The Family Shakespeare. 4 vols. Bath: Richard Cruttwell, 1807.Google Scholar
Clark, William, Glover, John, and Wright, William Aldis, eds. The Clarendon Shakespeare. Expurgated and Intended for Use in Schools. 17 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1868–97.Google Scholar
Clarke, Mary Cowden, ed. The Works of William Shakespeare. 2 vols. New York: Appleton, 1859–60.Google Scholar
Collier, John Payne, ed. The Works of William Shakespeare. 8 vols. London: Whittaker, 1842–44.Google Scholar
Erne, Lukas. Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Foucault, Michel. “What Is an Author?” The Foucault Reader. Ed. Rabinow, Paul. New York: Pantheon, 1984. 101–20.Google Scholar
Greg, W. W. “T. Goodal.” Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 46.1 (1931): 268–71.Google Scholar
Greg, W. W. “Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, 1872–1940.” Proceedings of the British Academy 26 (1940): 489–515.Google Scholar
Hanmer, Thomas, ed. The Works of Shakespeare. 6 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1743–44.Google Scholar
Hinman, Charlton. The Printing and Proof-reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963.Google Scholar
Hunter, John, ed. Hamlet. By Shakespeare, William. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1865.Google Scholar
Ioppolo, Grace. Dramatists and Their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood: Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006.Google Scholar
Jackson, MacDonald P. “Is ‘Hand D’ of Sir Thomas More Shakespeare’s? Thomas Bayes and the Elliott–Valenza Authorship Tests.” Early Modern Literary Studies: A Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature 12.3 (January 2007). http://purl.oclc.org/emls/12-3/jackbaye.htm.Google Scholar
Johnson, Samuel, ed. The Plays of William Shakespeare. 8 vols. London, J. and R. Tonson, 1765.Google Scholar
Jowett, John. Shakespeare and Text. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007.Google Scholar
Loewenstein, Joseph. Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Lounsbury, T. R. The Text of Shakespeare. New York: Scribner, 1906.Google Scholar
Massai, Sonia. Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Murphy, Andrew. Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Pope, Alexander, ed. The Works of Shakespear. 6 vols. London: Jacob Tonson, 1725.Google Scholar
Rowe, Nicholas, ed. The Works of Mr. William Shakespear. 6 vols. London: Jacob Tonson, 1709.Google Scholar
Shakespeare, William. Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623.Google Scholar
Shakespeare, William. An Excellent Conceited Tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet. London: John Danter, 1597.Google Scholar
Shakespeare, William. The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. London: G. Eld for R. Bonian and H. Walley, 1609.Google Scholar
Shakespeare, William. The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie, of Romeo and Juliet. London: Thomas Creede for Cuthbert Burby, 1599.Google Scholar
Shirley, James. “To the Reader.” Comedies and Tragedies. By Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher, John. London: Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley, 1647.Google Scholar
St. Clair, William. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Tate, Nahum. The History of King Lear. London: E. Flesher, 1681.Google Scholar
Theobald, Lewis, ed. The Works of Shakespeare. 7 vols. London: A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. Tonson, F. Clay, W Feales and R. Wellington, 1733.Google Scholar
Werstine, Paul. “The Continuing Importance of the New Bibliographical Method.” Shakespeare Survey 62 (2009). 30–45Google Scholar
Wilson, John Dover. “Thirteen Volumes of Shakespeare: A Retrospect.” Modern Language Review 25.4 (1930): 397–414.Google Scholar

Further reading

de Grazia, Margreta. Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.Google Scholar
Franklin, Colin. Shakespeare Domesticated: The Eighteenth-Century Editions. Aldershot: Scolar, 1991.Google Scholar
Kastan, David Scott. Shakespeare and the Book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Knowles, Richard. The Shakespeare Variorum Handbook: A Manual of Editorial Practice. New York: MLA, 2003. http://www.mla.org/variorum_handbook.Google Scholar
Wells, Stanley, and Taylor, Gary (with Jowett, John and Montgomery), William. William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987.Google Scholar

Sources cited

Bond, Ronald B., ed. Certain Sermons or Homelies. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1987.Google Scholar
Braunmuller, A. R. “How farre is’t called to Soris?” Textual Formations and Reformations. Ed. Maguire, Laurie E. and Berger, Thomas L.. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998. 112–30.Google Scholar
Braunmuller, A. R., ed. Hamlet. By Shakespeare, William. New York: Penguin, 2001.Google Scholar
Eccles, Mark, ed. Measure for Measure. By Shakespeare, William. New Variorum Shakespeare. New York: MLA, 1980.Google Scholar
Erne, Lukas. Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Gibbons, Brian, ed. Measure for Measure. By Shakespeare, William. Updated ed. New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Hulme, Hilda. Explorations in Shakespeare’s Language: Some Problems of Lexical Meaning in the Dramatic Text. London: Longmans, 1962.Google Scholar
Leech, Clifford. “On Editing One’s First Play.” Studies in Bibliography 27 (1970): 61–70.Google Scholar
Lever, J. W., ed. Measure for Measure. By Shakespeare, William. 2nd ed. Arden Shakespeare. London: Methuen, 1965.Google Scholar
McLeod, Randall. “UN Editing Shak-speare.” Sub-stance 33–34 (1981): 26–55.Google Scholar
Murphy, Andrew. Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Shakespeare, William. The Riverside Shakespeare. Ed. Evans, G. B.. Boston: Houghton, 1974.Google Scholar
Sisson, C. J. New Readings in Shakespeare. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956.Google Scholar
Taylor, Gary, et al., eds. Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007.Google Scholar
Walton, J. K. Quarto Copy for the First Folio of Shakespeare. Dublin: Dublin UP, 1971.Google Scholar
Wells, Stanley, and Taylor, Gary (with Jowett, John and Montgomery), William. William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987.Google Scholar
Williams, Gordon. A Dictionary of Sexual Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature. 3 vols. London: Athlone, 1994.Google Scholar

Further reading

Barnard, John, and MacKenzie, D. F., eds. (with the assistance of Bell, Maureen). The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Vol. IV: 1557–1695. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Finkelstein, David, and McCleery, Alaistair. An Introduction to Book History. London: Routledge, 2005.Google Scholar
Finkelstein, David, and McCleery, Alaistair. eds. The Book History Reader. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2006.Google Scholar
Gaskell, Philip. A New Introduction to Bibliography. New York: Oxford UP, 1972.Google Scholar
Greetham, D. C. Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. Rev. ed. New York: Garland, 1994.Google Scholar
Kelemen, Erick. Textual Editing and Criticism: An Introduction. New York: Norton, 2009.Google Scholar
MacKenzie, D. F. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.Google Scholar
Tanselle, Thomas. Textual Criticism since Greg: A Chronicle, 1950–1985. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1987.Google Scholar
Williams, William Proctor, and Abbott, Craig S.. An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies. 3rd ed. New York: MLA, 1999.Google Scholar

Sources cited

Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800–1900. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1957.Google Scholar
Bartleby’s Complete Works of William Shakespeare. http://www.bartleby.com/70/.Google Scholar
Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle [London] 19 February 1860: 2.Google Scholar
Best, Michael. “Shakespeare and the Electronic Text.” A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text. Ed. Murphy, Andrew. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 149.Google Scholar
Clarke, Charles, and Clarke, Mary Cowden, eds. Plays. By Shakespeare, William. 3 vols. Cassell’s Illustrated Shakespeare. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1864–69. (Originally issued serially in 270 numbers.)Google Scholar
The Cornhill Magazine 50 (February 1864). Unpaginated advertisement at the front of the volume.Google Scholar
Crystal, David, and Crystal, Ben. Shakespeare’s Words. http://www.shakespeareswords.com.Google Scholar
Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Serial number 12 (1 March 1839). London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.Google Scholar
Farrow, Matty. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. University of Sydney. http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/. Folger Digital Texts. http://folgerdigitaltexts.org.Google Scholar
The Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser [Dublin] 23 September 1887: 2.Google Scholar
A History of the Shakespeare Memorial, Stratford-on-Avon. 2nd ed. Published for the Council for the Shakespeare Memorial Association. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1882.Google Scholar
Hudson, Henry N. A Discourse Delivered on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Daniel Webster, January 18, 1882. Boston: Ginn, Heath, and Co., 1882.Google Scholar
Hudson, Henry N. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters. Vol. 1. Boston: Ginn, Heath, and Co., 1882.Google Scholar
Hylton, Jeremy. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http://shakespeare.mit.edu/works.html.Google Scholar
Internet Shakespeare Editions. University of Victoria. http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/plays.html.Google Scholar
Knowles, Richard. Shakespeare Variorum Handbook: A Manual of Editorial Practice. 2nd ed. Revised and enlarged. New York: MLA, 2003. http://www.mla.org/pdf/variorum_hndbk.pdf. Accessed 16 August 2010.Google Scholar
Murphy, Andrew. Shakespeare for the People: Working-Class Readers, 1800–1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Murphy, Andrew. Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Open Source Shakespeare. http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/.Google Scholar
“Pictorial Penny Shakespeare.” The Northern Star and National Trades’ Journal [Leeds] 9.420 (29 November 1845): 3.Google Scholar
Shakespeare, William. Knight’s Cabinet Edition of the Works of William Shakspere. London: Charles Knight, 1843.Google Scholar
Shakespeare, William. The School-Shakspeare. London: Rice, 1822.Google Scholar
Sillars, Stuart. The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709–1875. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.Google Scholar

Further reading

Eliot, Simon. Some Patterns and Trends in British Publishing, 1800–1919. London: Bibliographical Society, 1994.Google Scholar
Young, Alan. “John Dicks’s Illustrated Edition of ‘Shakspere for the Millions.’” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 106.2 (June 2012): 285–310.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Sources cited

Bowers, Fredson. On Editing Shakespeare. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1966.Google Scholar
Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Trans. Cochrane, Lydia G.. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994.Google Scholar
Clark, William George, and Wright, William Aldis, eds. The Works of William Shakespeare. 9 vols. The Cambridge Shakespeare. London: Macmillan, 1863–66.Google Scholar
Greg, W. W. The Editorial Problem in Shakespeare: A Survey of the Foundations of the Text. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1954.Google Scholar
Ioppolo, Grace. Revising Shakespeare. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991.Google Scholar
Johnson, Samuel. “Proposals for Printing by Subscription Shakespeare’s Plays.” Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare. Ed. Woudhuysen, H. R.. New York: Penguin, 1989. 113–19.Google Scholar
Massai, Sonia. Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
McGann, Jerome J. The Textual Condition. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991.Google Scholar
McKerrow, R. B., ed. The Works of Thomas Nashe. Vol. 2. 1904. Oxford: Blackwell, 1966.Google Scholar
McLeod, Randall. “From Tranceformations in the Text of Orlando Furioso.” New Directions in Textual Studies. Ed. Oliphant, Dave and Bradford, Robin. Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center/U of Texas P, 1990. 60–85.Google Scholar
Pope, Alexander, ed. The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes. Vol. 1. London: 1725.Google Scholar
Prynne, William. Histrio-mastix. London: n.p., 1633.Google Scholar
Rowe, Nicholas, ed. The Works of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes. Vol. 1. London: n.p., 1709.Google Scholar
Simpson, Percy. Proof-reading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. London: Oxford UP, 1935.Google Scholar
Tanselle, G. Thomas. “The Editorial Problem of Final Authorial Intention.” Studies in Bibliography 29 (1976): 167–211.Google Scholar
Tanselle, G. Thomas. “Textual Criticism and Literary Sociology.” Studies in Bibliography 44 (1991): 83–143.Google Scholar
Tanselle, G. Thomas. “The Varieties of Scholarly Editing.” Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research. Ed. Greetham, D. C.. New York: MLA, 1995. 9–32.Google Scholar
Theobald, Lewis, ed. The Works of Shakespeare, in Seven Volumes. Vol. 1. London: n.p., 1733.Google Scholar
Warren, Michael. “Repunctuation as Interpretation in Editions of Shakespeare.” English Literary Renaissance 7.2 (1977): 155–69.Google Scholar
Wells, Stanley, and Taylor, Gary, eds. William Shakespeare: The Complete Works. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986.Google Scholar
Wilson, J. Dover. “The Task of Heminge and Condell.” Studies in the First Folio. London: Oxford UP, 1924. 53–77.Google Scholar

Further reading

Brooks, Douglas. From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Chartier, Roger. Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1995.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Erne, Lukas. Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Kastan, David Scott. Shakespeare and the Book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Marcus, Leah. Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton. London: Routledge, 1996.Google Scholar
McGann, Jerome J. A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983.Google Scholar
McKenzie, D. F. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts: The Panizzi Lectures, 1985. London: The British Library, 1986.Google Scholar
McLeod, Randall. “UN Editing Shak-speare.” Sub-Stance 33–34 (1982): 26–55.Google Scholar
Murphy, Andrew. Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare’s Publishing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Saeger, James P., and Fassler, Christopher J.. “The London Professional Theater, 1576–1642: A Catalogue and Analysis of the Extant Printed Plays.” Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 34 (1995): 63–110.Google Scholar

Sources cited

Bowers, Fredson. “The Copy for the Folio Richard III.” Shakespeare Quarterly 10.4 (1959): 541–44.Google Scholar
Burton, Dolores M. Shakespeare’s Grammatical Style: A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Richard II and Antony and Cleopatra. Austin: U of Texas P, 1973.Google Scholar
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.Google Scholar

Further reading

Best, Michael. “The Internet Shakespeare Editions: Scholarly Shakespeare on the Web.” Shakespeare 4.3 (2008): 237–49.Google Scholar
Best, Michael. “Shakespeare and the Electronic Text.” A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text. Ed. Murphy, Andrew. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. 145–61.Google Scholar
Bolton, Whitney. “The Bard in Bits: Electronic Editions of Shakespeare and Programs to Analyse Them.” Computers and the Humanities 24.4 (1990): 275–87.Google Scholar
Carson, Christie. “eShakespeare and Performance.” Shakespeare 4.3 (2008): 270–86.Google Scholar
Carson, Christie. “The Evolution of Online Editing: Where Will It End?” Shakespeare Survey 59 (2006): 168–81. DOI:10.1017/CCOL0521868386.014.Google Scholar
Donaldson, Peter S. “Digital Archive as Expanded Text: Shakespeare and Electronic Textuality.” Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory. Ed. Sutherland, Kathryn. Oxford: Clarendon, 1997. 173–97.Google Scholar
Flanders, Julia. “Data and Wisdom: Electronic Editing and the Quantification of Knowledge.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 24.1 (2009): 53–62.Google Scholar
Fogel, Ephim. “Electronic Computers and Elizabethan Texts.” Studies in Bibliography 15 (1962): 15–31.Google Scholar
Holland, Peter, and Onorato, Mary. “Scholars and the Marketplace: Creating Online Shakespeare Collections.” Shakespeare 4.3 (2008): 261–69.Google Scholar
Lancashire, Ian. “The State of Computing in Shakespeare.” The Shakespeare International Yearbook. Vol. 2: Where Are We Now in Shakespeare Studies? Ed. Elton, W. R. and Mucciolo, John M.. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. 89–110.Google Scholar
Lowry, Anita. “Electronic Texts in English and American Literature.” Library Trends 40.4 (1992): 704–23.Google Scholar
McCarty, Willard. “Handmade, Computer-Assisted, and Electronic Concordances to Chaucer.” CCH Working Papers 3 (1993): 49–65.Google Scholar
Murphy, Andrew. “Electric Shakespeares.” Computers and the Humanities 32.5 (1998): 411–20.Google Scholar
Murphy, Andrew. “Shakespeare Goes Digital: Three Open Internet Editions.” Shakespeare Quarterly 61.3 (2010): 401–14.Google Scholar
Pigman, G. W. III. “Searching in Vain for Some Solid Flesh.” Times Literary Supplement 3 July 1998: 9.Google Scholar
Richard Brome Online: http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/brome/.Google Scholar
Designing Shakespeare: http://www.ahds.rhul.ac.uk/ahdscollections/.Google Scholar
Enfolded Hamlet: http://www.leoyan.com/global-language.com/ENFOLDED/.Google Scholar
James Matthew Farrow’s site: http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/it/~matty/Shakespeare/.Google Scholar
Folger Digital Texts: http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/.Google Scholar
Jeremy Hylton’s site: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/.Google Scholar
Internet Shakespeare Editions: http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/.Google Scholar
Moby Shakespeare: http://icon.shef.ac.uk/Moby/.Google Scholar
Open Source Shakespeare: http://opensourceshakespeare.org/.Google Scholar
PlayShakespeare.com: http://www.playshakespeare.com/.Google Scholar
Shakespeare Quartos Archive: http://www.quartos.org/.Google Scholar
Shakespeare’s Words: http://www.shakespeareswords.com/.Google Scholar

Sources cited

Bevington, David. “Determining the Indeterminate: The Oxford Shakespeare.” Shakespeare Quarterly 38 (1987): 501–19.Google Scholar
Blayney, Peter W. M. The Texts of “King Lear” and Their Origins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.Google Scholar
Doran, Madeleine. The Text of King Lear. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1931.Google Scholar
Erne, Lukas. “Editing the Real Lear.” Shakespeare’s Modern Collaborators. London: Continuum, 2008.Google Scholar
Foakes, R. A. King Lear. The Arden Shakespeare Third Series. London: Thomas Nelson, 1997.Google Scholar
Greg, W. W. The Variants in the First Quarto of “King Lear.” Oxford: Oxford UP, 1940.Google Scholar
Halio, Jay L. The First Quarto of King Lear. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.Google Scholar
Halio, Jay L. The Tragedy of King Lear. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.Google Scholar
Kermode, Frank. “Disintegration Once More.” The British Academy Shakespeare Lectures 84 (1993): 93–111.Google Scholar
Taylor, Gary. “The War in King Lear.” Shakespeare Survey 33 (1980): 27–34.Google Scholar
Taylor, Gary, and Warren, Michael, eds. The Division of the Kingdoms: Shakespeare’s Two Versions of “King Lear.” Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.Google Scholar
Thompson, Ann, and Taylor, Neil, eds. Hamlet. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2006.Google Scholar
Warren, Michael. “Quarto and Folio King Lear and the Interpretation of Albany and Edgar.” Shakespeare, Pattern of Excelling Nature. Ed. Bevington, David and Halio, Jay. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1978. 95–107.Google Scholar
Warren, Michael. William Shakespeare: The Parallel King Lear, 1608–1623. Berkeley: U of California P, 1989.Google Scholar
Weis, René. King Lear: A Parallel Text Edition. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 2010.Google Scholar
Wells, Stanley. The History of King Lear. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.Google Scholar
Wells, Stanley, and Taylor, Gary, eds. (with Jowett, John and Montgomery, William). William Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1986.Google Scholar

Further reading

Honigmann, E. A. J. “Shakespeare’s Revised Plays: King Lear and Othello,” The Library 4 (1982): 142–73.Google Scholar
Jeffrey, Kahan, ed. King Lear, New Critical Essays. London: Routledge. 2008.Google Scholar
Knowles, Richard. “Revision Awry in Folio Lear 3.1,” Shakespeare Quarterly 46 (1995): 32–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Knowles, Richard. “Cordelia’s Return,” Shakespeare Quarterly 50 (1999): 35–50.Google Scholar
Stone, P. W. K. The Textual History of King Lear. Cambridge: Scolar Press, 1980.Google Scholar
Urkowitz, Steven. Shakespeare’s Revision of “King Lear.” Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.Google Scholar
Vickers, Brian. “Are All of Them by Shakespeare?” TLS 9 August 2006.Google Scholar
Wells, Stanley. “The Once and Future King Lear.” The Division of the Kingdoms. Ed. Taylor, Gary and Warren, Michael. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987. 1–22.Google Scholar

Sources cited

Barnet, Sylvan, gen. ed., The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare. New York: Harcourt, 1972.Google Scholar
Blayney, Peter W. M. “Introduction to the Second Edition.” The Norton Facsimile [of] The First Folio of Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Prepared by Hinman, Charlton. New York: Norton, 1996. xxvii–xxxv.Google Scholar
Bowdler, Thomas, ed. The Family Shakespeare. 10 vols. London: Longmans, 1818.Google Scholar
Clark, William George, and Glover, John, eds. The Works of William Shakespeare. Vol. 1. 1863. The Works of William Shakespeare. Ed. Clark, William George and Wright, William Aldis. The Cambridge Shakespeare. 9 vols. London: Macmillan, 1863–66.Google Scholar
Collier, J. Payne. The Works of William Shakspeare. 8 vols. London: Whittaker, 1842–44.Google Scholar
Dryden, John, and Sir D’Avenant, William. The Tempest: Or, The Enchanted Isle. London: 1670.Google Scholar
Evans, G. Blakemore, textual ed. The Riverside Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton, 1974.Google Scholar
Furness, Horace Howard, ed. The Tempest: A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. New York: Lippincott, 1892.Google Scholar
Harbage, Alfred, gen. ed. William Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Rev. ed. The Pelican Text. New York: Penguin, 1969.Google Scholar
Hinman, Charlton. The Printing and Proof-reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963.Google Scholar
Johnson, Samuel, ed. The Plays of William Shakespeare. 8 vols. London: Tonson, 1765.Google Scholar
Kittredge, George Lyman, ed. Sixteen Plays of Shakespeare, with Full Explanatory Notes, Textual Notes, and Glossaries. Boston: Ginn, 1939.Google Scholar
Knight, Charles, ed. The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere. 2nd rev. ed. 8 vols. London: Routledge, 1867.Google Scholar
Lindley, David, ed. The Tempest. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Mowat, Barbara A. “The Form of Hamlet’s Fortunes.” Renaissance Drama 19 (1989): 97–126.Google Scholar
Mowat, Barbara A. “Q2 Othello and the 1606 ‘Acte to restraine Abuses of Players.’” Varianten-Variants-Variantes. Ed. Jansohn, Christa and Plachta, Bodo. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2005. 91–106.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mowat, Barbara A. “The Reproduction of Shakespeare’s Texts.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. Ed. de Grazia, Margreta and Wells, Stanley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 13–29.Google Scholar
Mowat, Barbara A., and Werstine, Paul, eds. The Tempest. New Folger Library Shakespeare. New York: Washington Square, 1994.Google Scholar
Orgel, Stephen, ed. The Tempest. The Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987.Google Scholar
Ribner, Irving, and Kittredge, George Lyman, eds. The Complete Works of Shakespeare. Waltham: Ginn, 1971.Google Scholar
Roberts, Jeanne Addison. “‘Wife’ or ‘Wise’ – The Tempest, l. 1786.” Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978): 203–08.Google Scholar
Rowe, Nicholas, ed. The Works of Mr. William Shakespear. 6 vols. London: Tonson, 1709.Google Scholar
Seary, Peter. Lewis Theobald and the Editing of Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990.Google Scholar
Theobald, Lewis, ed. The Works of Shakespeare. 7 vols. London: Tonson, 1733.Google Scholar
Vaughan, Virginia Mason, and Vaughan, Alden T., eds. The Tempest. The Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Series. Walton-on-Thames: Thomas Nelson, 1999.Google Scholar
Wilson, John Dover, ed. (with Quiller-Couch, Arthur). New Shakespeare Tempest. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1921.Google Scholar
Wright, William Aldis, ed. The Works of William Shakespeare. 9 vols. London: Macmillan, 1891–93.Google Scholar

Further reading

Blayney, Peter W. M. The First Folio of Shakespeare. Hanover: Folger, 1991.Google Scholar
Brown, Paul. “‘This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine’: The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism.” Political Shakespeare. Ed. Dollimore, Jonathan and Sinfield, Alan. Ithaca: Cornell, 1985. 48–71.Google Scholar
Massai, Sonia. Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Mowat, Barbara A. “Editing Shakespeare’s Text(s).” Shakesplorations. Essays in Honour of Professor Marta Gibinska. Ed. Limon, Jerzy, Grzegorzewska, Malgorzata, and Fabiszak, Jacek. Gdansk: U Gdansk P, 2012. 13–23.Google Scholar
Mowat, Barbara A. “Nicholas Rowe and the Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Text.” Shakespeare and Cultural Traditions. Ed. Kishi, Tetsuo, Pringle, Roger, and Wells, Stanley. U of Delaware P, 1994. 314–22.Google Scholar
Mowat, Barbara A. “Prospero, Agrippa, and Hocus Pocus,” English Literary Renaissance 11 (1981): 281–303.Google Scholar
Murphy, Andrew. Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Roberts, Jeanne Addison. “Ralph Crane and the Text of The Tempest.” Shakespeare Studies 13 (1980): 213–33.Google Scholar
Werstine, Paul. “The Science of Editing,” A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text. Ed. Murphy, Andrew. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2007. 109–27.Google Scholar
Werstine, Paul. “Shakespeare.” Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research. Ed. Greetham, D. C.: MLA, 1995. 253–82.Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×