Shakespeare's Fight With the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His Text (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Alfred W. Pollard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331920647 ISBN 13 : 9781331920649

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

How piracy, printers, and editors transformed Shakespeare’s plays

A clear, engaging look at the fighting ground where texts met printers, pirates, and publishers in Shakespeare’s time. This study explains how the plays reached readers and how editors and printers influenced what survives today.

The book surveys the dynamic world of early modern publishing, showing how the Stationers’ Company, licensing controls, and market pressures interacted with authorial manuscripts and prompt copies. It examines the First Folio and various quartos to reveal how texts were prepared, corrected, and sometimes revised before reaching the public.

• Learn how plays moved from manuscript to print and why certain editions were chosen or rejected.
• See the tension between acting companies, scriveners, and publishers in shaping text and ownership.
• Explore how licensing, copyright practices, and piracy affected what readers could buy.
• Understand how editors and printers interpreted earlier texts to produce surviving editions.

Ideal for readers of literary history and Shakespeare enthusiasts who want a clear picture of how the book trade helped move his plays from stage to page.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Shakespeare's Fight With the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His Text

The four papers here reprinted were read as Sandars Reader in Bibliography in the University of Cambridge in November, 1915, and have already appeared in the successive numbers of 'The Library' during the present year. While the other three papers are here printed substantially as they were read, in that on the Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Plays the survey of plays by his contemporaries which have come down to us in manuscript has been slightly extended. That it still remains very brief and inadequate is due to my consciousness that I possess no special qualifications for investigating the problem as to which of them are the work of scriveners and which in the authors' autographs, and that even if I were much more of an expert, the fact that I may be reasonably suspected of having a thesis to prove would deprive my conclusions of any real weight. That this particular problem is well worth examining I am most firmly convinced, and I hope sincerely that some competent student will take it up and publish his conclusions. Whether these confirm or weaken my own argument, I think I can promise him a hearty welcome in 'The Library' for anything he has to say.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Originally published in 1906. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331920647
• ISBN 13: 9781331920649
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 125
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