This comprehensive reference surveys the editing and publishing of Shakespeare's texts from the Renaissance through our own time. Andrew Murphy not only covers all of the major scholarly editions. He also includes mass market popular editions and ranges widely across the rich field of Shakespeare publishing. Murphy's comprehensive listing of major Shakespeare editions makes this volume an invaluable basic research resource.
This comprehensive reference surveys the editing and publishing of Shakespeare's texts from the Renaissance through our own time. Andrew Murphy not on...
Shakespeare and Scotland is a timely collection of new essays in which leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic address a neglected national context for an exemplary body of dramatic work too often viewed within a narrow English milieu or against a broad British backdrop. These essays explore, from a variety of critical perspectives, the playwright's place in Scotland and the place of Scotland in his work. From critical reception to dramatic and cinematic adaptation, the contributors engage with the complexity of Shakespeare's Scotland and Scotland's Shakespeare. The influence of...
Shakespeare and Scotland is a timely collection of new essays in which leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic address a neglected national con...
Beginning by mapping out an overview of the expansion of elementary education in Britain across the nineteenth century, Andrew Murphy explores the manner in which Shakespeare acquired a working-class readership. He traces developments in publishing which meant that editions of Shakespeare became ever cheaper as the century progressed. Drawing on more than a hundred published and manuscript autobiographical texts, the book examines the experiences of a wide range of working-class readers. Particular attention is focused on a set of radical readers for whom Shakespeare's work had a special...
Beginning by mapping out an overview of the expansion of elementary education in Britain across the nineteenth century, Andrew Murphy explores the man...
At the rise of the Tudor age, England began to form a national identity. With that sense of self came the beginnings of the colonialist notion of the "other"" Ireland, however, proved a most difficult other because it was so closely linked, both culturally and geographically, to England. Ireland's colonial position was especially complex because of the political, religious, and ethnic heritage it shared with England. Andrew Murphy asserts that the Irish were seen not as absolute but as "proximate" others. As a result, English writing about Ireland was a problematic process, since standard...
At the rise of the Tudor age, England began to form a national identity. With that sense of self came the beginnings of the colonialist notion of t...
This collection of essays focuses attention on the broad issue of Renaissance textuality. It explores such topics as the position of the reader relative to the text; the impact of editorial strategies and modes of presentation on our understanding of the text; the complexities of extended textual histories; and the relevance of gender to the process of textual retrieval and preservation. The volume is closely informed by recent developments in textual theory which have led to a probing interrogation of traditional understandings of the early modern textual world and of how we should edit,...
This collection of essays focuses attention on the broad issue of Renaissance textuality. It explores such topics as the position of the reader relati...
Beginning by mapping out an overview of the expansion of elementary education in Britain across the nineteenth century, Andrew Murphy explores the manner in which Shakespeare acquired a working-class readership. He traces developments in publishing which meant that editions of Shakespeare became ever cheaper as the century progressed. Drawing on more than a hundred published and manuscript autobiographical texts, the book examines the experiences of a wide range of working-class readers. Particular attention is focused on a set of radical readers for whom Shakespeare's work had a special...
Beginning by mapping out an overview of the expansion of elementary education in Britain across the nineteenth century, Andrew Murphy explores the man...
A respected Politician lies murdered in the Palace of Westminster. A confidential report by the British Security Services has been leaked to a corrupt corporate interest. A young woman spies on the secretive dealings of a group of powerful executives, her motives unknown. Benjamin 'BB' Breakspear is the man brought in to look into the work of the late James Leatherby MP, and uncover a possible link to the man's murder. In the course of his own investigations, BB discovers a web of corruption that connects a powerful corporation, a vicious crime lord, and a stolen experimental weapon of...
A respected Politician lies murdered in the Palace of Westminster. A confidential report by the British Security Services has been leaked to a corrupt...
...all that is under the sky This is the strange message that is sent around the globe when a major energy corporation becomes the target of an apparent cyber-attack. Into this world of corporate espionage steps Benedict Purcell, an investigative journalist set on exposing corruption. His research soon leads him into a dangerous game, where even governments become pawns. Across the city, political lobbyist Rosie Dannel enlists the help of private detective Benjamin 'BB' Breakspear to investigate a political rival. But events from BB's own past will have fatal repercussions. Once again he will...
...all that is under the sky This is the strange message that is sent around the globe when a major energy corporation becomes the target of an appare...
One of the "Shakespearean Originals" series which reproduces 16th- and 17th-century playtexts as closely as possible to their original forms. Each comprises an introduction to the play, the text, a select bibliography, full annotations and some sample facsimile pages from the text itself.
One of the "Shakespearean Originals" series which reproduces 16th- and 17th-century playtexts as closely as possible to their original forms. Each com...
The emergence of an Irish 'common reader' in the nineteenth century had significant implications for the evolution of Irish cultural nationalism. The rise of literacy rates prompted a cultural crisis, with nationalists fearing that the beneficiaries of mass education were being drawn to populist publications emanating from London which were having the effect of eroding Irish identity and corrupting Irish morals. This fear prompted an intensification of cultural nationalist activity at the turn of the century. Andrew Murphy's study, which includes a chapter on W. B. Yeats and the Irish reader,...
The emergence of an Irish 'common reader' in the nineteenth century had significant implications for the evolution of Irish cultural nationalism. The ...
