Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Reconstructions of the Globe: A Retrospective
- ‘Useful in the Year 1999’: William Poel and Shakespeare’s ‘Build of Stage’
- Reconstructing the Globe: Constructing Ourselves
- From Liturgy to the Globe: the Changing Concept of Space
- The Arithmetic of Memory: Shakespeare’s Theatre and the National Past
- Maximal and Minimal Texts: Shakespeare v. the Globe
- William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet: Everything’s Nice in America?
- Which is the Jew that Shakespeare Knew?: Shylock on the Elizabethan Stage
- A Little Touch of Harry in the Light: Henry V at the New Globe
- Gulls, Cony-Catchers and Cozeners: Twelfth Night and the Elizabethan Underworld
- The Globe, the Court and Measure for Measure
- Macbeth and the Antic Round
- Macbeth / Umabatha: Global Shakespeare in a Post-Colonial Market
- When All is True: Law, History and Problems of Knowledge in Henry VIII
- ‘All which it inherit’: Shakespeare, Globes and Global Media
- ‘Delicious traffick’: Alterity and Exchange on Early Modern Stages
- The 1998 Globe Season
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 1998
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles January-December 1997
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespeare Studies 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare’s Life, Times, and Stage
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Books Received
- Index
3 - Editions and Textual Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2007
- Frontmatter
- Reconstructions of the Globe: A Retrospective
- ‘Useful in the Year 1999’: William Poel and Shakespeare’s ‘Build of Stage’
- Reconstructing the Globe: Constructing Ourselves
- From Liturgy to the Globe: the Changing Concept of Space
- The Arithmetic of Memory: Shakespeare’s Theatre and the National Past
- Maximal and Minimal Texts: Shakespeare v. the Globe
- William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet: Everything’s Nice in America?
- Which is the Jew that Shakespeare Knew?: Shylock on the Elizabethan Stage
- A Little Touch of Harry in the Light: Henry V at the New Globe
- Gulls, Cony-Catchers and Cozeners: Twelfth Night and the Elizabethan Underworld
- The Globe, the Court and Measure for Measure
- Macbeth and the Antic Round
- Macbeth / Umabatha: Global Shakespeare in a Post-Colonial Market
- When All is True: Law, History and Problems of Knowledge in Henry VIII
- ‘All which it inherit’: Shakespeare, Globes and Global Media
- ‘Delicious traffick’: Alterity and Exchange on Early Modern Stages
- The 1998 Globe Season
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 1998
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles January-December 1997
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespeare Studies 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare’s Life, Times, and Stage
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Books Received
- Index
Summary
EDITIONS: ARDEN 3
The new Arden edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets has been a long time coming. C. K. Pooler’s edition in the original Arden series was issued in 1918; a revised second edition appeared in 1931. For many decades, students of the Sonnets awaited publication of a New Arden, long-announced as in preparation by Winifred Nowottny, which never came forth. Katherine Duncan-Jones begins her edition in the Arden 3 series with no mention of the lack of an Arden 2, although an explanation for the delay may be implicit in her observation that an edition prepared with due diligence necessarily takes time:
With reference to the text of individual sonnets, the minutest features of spelling, punctuation and format have momentous consequences for resonance and meaning. I have never felt more strongly than when working on this text the force of Oscar Wilde’s account of a writer’s hard labours: spending the whole morning putting in a comma, and the whole afternoon taking it out.
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- Information
- Shakespeare Survey , pp. 302 - 326Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999