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Series:   Elements in Shakespeare and Text

Shakespeare, Malone and the Problems of Chronology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2023

Tiffany Stern
Tiffany Stern
Affiliation:
Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

Summary

In 1778 Edmond Malone published his first contribution to Shakespeare scholarship, An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in which the Plays Attributed to Shakspeare were Written. He revised and republished it in 1790 and began a further revision of it which was printed posthumously in 1821. This Element will be on the three versions of Malone's Attempt and the way they created, shaped, focused, directed, and misdirected, our idea of the chronology and sequence of Shakespeare's plays. By showing Malone's impressive, fallible choices, adopted or adapted by later editors, it reveals how current Shakespeare editions are, in good and bad ways, Malonian at heart.
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MalonechronologyShakespeareShakespeare’s sequenceeighteenth-century editing
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Series: Elements in Shakespeare and Text
Online ISBN: 9781009224710
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 29 June 2023

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