Reading Readings: Essays on Shakespeare Editing in the Eighteenth CenturyJoanna Gondris Reading Readings begins with a long provocative essay by Random Cloud decrying eighteenth-century Shakespeare editions. The seventeen essays that follow assert the power of eighteenth-century editions to engage and inform the late twentieth-century reader. Together these essays show the many ways in which an examination of eighteenth-century Shakespeare editions can illuminate our understanding of Shakespeare, the eighteenth century, and the history and practice of editing. |
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... letter sent by Tonson to Johnson's publisher , Edward Cave , after Cave appended to Johnson's Miscellaneous Observa- tions on the tragedy of Macbeth a proposal for a new Shakespeare edi- tion . Suggesting that Tonson , " to soften the ...
... letter sent by Tonson to Johnson's publisher , Edward Cave , after Cave appended to Johnson's Miscellaneous Observa- tions on the tragedy of Macbeth a proposal for a new Shakespeare edi- tion . Suggesting that Tonson , " to soften the ...
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... letters with sounds ( " euery one ... a man of his owne fancie " ) , their vocalizations are simply after the fact — after the litteral fact . And so , it may be best to define Chough as manuage rather than language -as hand rather than ...
... letters with sounds ( " euery one ... a man of his owne fancie " ) , their vocalizations are simply after the fact — after the litteral fact . And so , it may be best to define Chough as manuage rather than language -as hand rather than ...
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... letter - which was consonant or vowel , as occasion demanded.5 Consonant : Vowel : very ouer ур out proud proud vuula yuula Got that ? Well then , a set of the potential 17th - century sounds of our two folio words can be suggested by ...
... letter - which was consonant or vowel , as occasion demanded.5 Consonant : Vowel : very ouer ур out proud proud vuula yuula Got that ? Well then , a set of the potential 17th - century sounds of our two folio words can be suggested by ...
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... letters ; but as they were long confounded while the two ufes were annexed to one form , the old cuftom ftill ... letter , V. Thus , John- son sorted Voyager directly before Up , because - get this - o precedes p . If graphics is ...
... letters ; but as they were long confounded while the two ufes were annexed to one form , the old cuftom ftill ... letter , V. Thus , John- son sorted Voyager directly before Up , because - get this - o precedes p . If graphics is ...
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... letter at the start of words ; and u is its form everywhere else . Thus the use of medial v in these two words in ... letters to the right : movoufus vauvado = vau + = то + Doufus vado 4 CLOUD.
... letter at the start of words ; and u is its form everywhere else . Thus the use of medial v in these two words in ... letters to the right : movoufus vauvado = vau + = то + Doufus vado 4 CLOUD.
Contents
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Grammatical Emendation in Some EighteenthCentury Editions of Shakespeare with Particular Reference to Cymbeline | 71 |
The Scene Changes? Stage Directions in EighteenthCentury Acting Editions of Shakespeare | 86 |
Examining the Parts Linebyline Analysis and the Redistribution of Meaning | 101 |
Lewis Theobald Edmond Malone and Others | 103 |
The EighteenthCentury Shakespeare Variorum Page as a Critical Structure | 123 |
Chedworth and the Territoriality of the Reader | 140 |
Hamlets Mousetrap and the PlaywithintheAnecdote of Plutarch | 164 |
The Rowe Editions of 17091714 and 31 of The Taming of the Shrew | 244 |
Hanmers Winters Tale | 268 |
The Annotation of Shakespeares Bawdy Tongue after Samuel Johnson | 281 |
Editing and the Marketplace | 297 |
Warburton Anonymity and the Shakespeare Wars | 299 |
Anonymity and the Erasure of Shakespeares First EighteenthCentury Editor | 318 |
A Comparison of the Two Editions of A Midsummer Nights Dream | 323 |
Visual Images of Hamlet 17091800 | 330 |
Lewis Theobald and Theories of Editing | 188 |
Codifying Gender The Disturbing Presence of Women | 207 |
Where lies your Text? | 209 |
Contending with Ophelia in the Eighteenth Century | 224 |
The Editing and Publication of Shakespeares Poems in the Eighteenth Century | 345 |
Contributors | 366 |
Index | 369 |
Common terms and phrases
actors Alexander Pope annotation anonymous appears Baskos Bianca Boskos Capell cargo century changes character Chedworth chicurmurco Chimurcho Chough cited collation commentary copy critical dulchos edition of Shakespeare editors Edmond Malone Edward Capell eighteenth eighteenth-century editions Elizabethan emballing emendation English essay example Folger Shakespeare Library Folio text frailty George Steevens Gildon Grazia Hamlet Hanmer Hecuba Henry VIII Hortensio Italian John language letter Lewis Theobald Lord Lucentio madness Malone Malone's meaning modern Nicholas Rowe notes Ophelia Oxford Parolles passage Penrice Plays of William Plutarch Poet Pope Pope's Preface printed published quarto reader reading reprinted response revanta Rowe Rowe's Samuel Johnson scene Seary second Folio Shake Shakespeare editions Shakespeare London Shakespeare's plays Shakespeare's poems Shakespeare's text Shrew soliloquy speare speech stage directions Steevens Steevens's suggests textual tion Tonson translation variants variorum edition Viola's vols volume Warburton William Shakespeare William Warburton Winter's Tale word карго
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Page 167 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 129 - O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites ! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others
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Page 160 - His story requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men. He knew that Rome, like every other city, had men of all dispositions ; and wanting a buffoon, he went into the senate-house for that which the senate-house would certainly have afforded him.
Page 204 - ... when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.
Page 293 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Page 229 - Ophelia is a character almost too exquisitely touching to be dwelt upon. Oh rose of May, oh flower too soon faded ! Her love, her madness, her death, are described with the truest touches of tenderness and pathos. It is a character which nobody but...
Page 173 - Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown, Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own: So think thou wilt no second husband wed; But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.
Page 158 - ... let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal, P.
Page 311 - He had, what is the first requisite to emendatory criticism, that intuition by which the poet's intention is immediately discovered, and that dexterity of intellect which despatches its work by the easiest means. He had undoubtedly read much; his acquaintance with customs, opinions, and traditions, seems to have been large; and he is often learned without show.