The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare

846 Pages·2012·5.33 MB·English

by  Arthur F Kinney

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
S H A K E S P E A R E
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THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
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S H A K E S P E A R E
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Edited by
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ARTHUR F KINNEY
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Preface
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The study of Shakespeare is rapidly changing. Scholars are redefining what he did and
didnotwrite,whatitmeantinhisowntime,andwhatitmeanstoours.Linesarebeing
redrawn, even now; old stories are being told with new twists; our collective images of
Shakespeare asapersonandapoetaredisintegratingandreforming.Anewportraitof
him has been proposed; scientific language study has assigned new writing to him and
dismissed some earlier attributions; we know more about his professional associations,
his playing companies, their repertoire, and the country routes they travelled; and we
havelearnedfarmoreaboutthesocial,political,religious,andeconomictimesinwhich
he lived and for which he wrote than at any time in the past. Within the Oxford
HandbooksofLiteratureseries, those devotedtothestudy ofShakespeare aredesigned
to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgements by both
familiarandyoungerShakespeareanspecialists.Eachofthesevolumesiseditedbyoneor
moreinternationallydistinguishedShakespeareans;together,theycomprehensivelysur-
veytheentirefield.
ArthurF.Kinney
InMemoryof
adammaxcohen1971–2010
Acknowledgements
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Iamgratefultothemanyco-authorsofthisvolumeandtheirmanysuggestions;forthe
editorial assistance of Jeffrey Goodhind, Thomas Warren Hopper, David Katz, Philip
S. Palmer, and Timothy Zajac; and to the editors atOxford University Press, especially
Andrew McNeillie, Jacqueline Baker, Kathleen Kerr, Brendan Mac Evilly, Ruth Free-
stone–King,andHayleyBuckley.
—A.F.K.
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Contents
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ListofIllustrations xiii
Noteson Contributors xiv
Introduction 1
Arthur F. Kinney
PART I TEXTS
1. Authorship 15
Hugh Craig
2. Collaboration 31
MacDonald P. Jackson
3. Manuscript Circulation 53
Arthur F. Marotti and Laura Estill
4. Quarto and Folio 71
Ann Thompson
5. Revision 85
Grace Ioppolo
6. Dramatic Metre 100
Matteo A. Pangallo
7. Book Trade 126
Adam G. Hooks
8. Early Readers 143
Sonia Massai
PART II CONDITIONS
9. Economy 165
Ian W. Archer