Unediting the Renaissance : Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton

ISBN-13: 9780415099349 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 280 str.

Leah S. Marcus;Leah S. Marcus;Leah S. Marcus

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Did Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew ever stay untamed? Many readers and students do not recognize the extent to which modern standard editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe and other Renaissance authors have been filtered through 18th-century and Victorian sensibilities. This volume reveals the array of possibilities opened up by unediting these texts. It shows how much the texts of early modern authors have altered and rigidified over time. It also demonstrates how modern interpretations and performances of such works can be injected with new energy by a recognition of the possibilities closed off by modern standard editions. This work aims to initiate debate about what makes a text definitive, and should be of use to students and scholars of Renaissance studies, as well as general readers who wish to learn more about what goes on behind the barbed wire of textual apparatus in modern editions.

Unediting the Renaissance is a path-breaking and timely look at the issues of the textual editing of Renaissance works. Both erudite and accessible, it will be a fascinating and provocative read for any Renaissance student or scholar.
Marcus focuses on key Renaissance works - Dr Faustus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet and poems by Milton, Donne and Herrick - to re-exmaine how editorial intervention shapes the texts which are widely accepted as `definitive'.
A lively critique of current theoretical practices, Unediting the Renaissance will shift the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries are edited and read.

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1 INTRODUCTION: The blue-eyed witch 2 TEXTUAL INSTABILITY AND IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE: The case of Doctor Faustus 3 PURITY AND DANGER IN THE MODERN EDITION: The Merry Wives of Windsor 4 THE EDITOR AS TAMER: A Shrew and The Shrew 5 BAD TASTE AND BAD HAMLET 6 JOHN MILTON’S VOICE

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Leah S.Marcus is Blumberg Centennial Professor in English at the University of Texas, Austin. Her previous books include Childhood and Cultural Despair, The Politics of Mirth and Puzzling Shakespeare.