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Facsimiles and the History of Shakespeare Editing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2023

Paul Salzman
Affiliation:
La Trobe University, Victoria

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Is a facsimile an edition? In answering this question in relation to Shakespeare, and to early modern writing in general, the author explores the interrelationship between the beginning of the conventional process of collecting and editing Shakespeare's plays and the increasing sophistication of facsimiles. While recent scholarship has offered a detailed account of how Shakespeare was edited in the eighteenth century, the parallel process of the 'exact' reproduction of his texts has been largely ignored. The author will explain how facsimiles moved during the eighteenth and nineteenth century from hand drawn, traced, and type facsimiles to the advent of photographical facsimiles in the mid nineteenth century. Facsimiles can be seen as a barometer of the reverence accorded to the idea of an authentic Shakespeare text, and also of the desire to possess, if not original texts, then reproductions of them.
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Online ISBN: 9781009228268
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 22 June 2023

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Facsimiles and the History of Shakespeare Editing
  • Paul Salzman, La Trobe University, Victoria
  • Online ISBN: 9781009228268
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Facsimiles and the History of Shakespeare Editing
  • Paul Salzman, La Trobe University, Victoria
  • Online ISBN: 9781009228268
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