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The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare's First Folio / edited by Emma Smith.

Contributor(s): Series: Cambridge companions to literatureCopyright date: ©2016Description: xiii, 203 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107098787 (Hardback)
  • 9781107491687 (Paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.3/3 23 C178
LOC classification:
  • PR3071 .C35 2016
Other classification:
  • LIT004120
Contents:
Preface / Emma Smith -- Shakespeare in print before 1623 / Tara L. Lyons -- Publishing the First Folio / Eric Rasmussen -- Printing the First Folio / B.D.R. Higgins -- The prefatorial material / Chris Laoutaris -- The provenance of the Folio texts / Gabriel Egan -- 'Complete' Works: The Folio and all of Shakespeare / Peter Kirwan -- Early buyers and readers / Jean-Christophe Mayer -- Editors / Edmund G.C. King -- Collectors / Steven K. Galbraith -- Reading the First Folio / Emma Smith -- Digital First Folios / Sarah Werner -- Afterword: the Folio as fetish / Adam G. Hooks.
Summary: "One of the world's most studied books, prompting speculation about everything from proof-reading practices in the early modern publishing industry to the 'true' authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Arguments about the nature of the First Folio are crucial to every modern edition of Shakespeare and thus to every reader or student of the plays"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Emma Smith -- Shakespeare in print before 1623 / Tara L. Lyons -- Publishing the First Folio / Eric Rasmussen -- Printing the First Folio / B.D.R. Higgins -- The prefatorial material / Chris Laoutaris -- The provenance of the Folio texts / Gabriel Egan -- 'Complete' Works: The Folio and all of Shakespeare / Peter Kirwan -- Early buyers and readers / Jean-Christophe Mayer -- Editors / Edmund G.C. King -- Collectors / Steven K. Galbraith -- Reading the First Folio / Emma Smith -- Digital First Folios / Sarah Werner -- Afterword: the Folio as fetish / Adam G. Hooks.

"One of the world's most studied books, prompting speculation about everything from proof-reading practices in the early modern publishing industry to the 'true' authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Arguments about the nature of the First Folio are crucial to every modern edition of Shakespeare and thus to every reader or student of the plays"-- Provided by publisher.