At first consideration, it would seem that Shakespeare and Monty Python have very little in common other than that they're both English. Shakespeare wrote during the reign of a politically puissant Elizabeth, while Python flourished under an Elizabeth figurehead. Shakespeare wrote for rowdy theatre whereas Python toiled at a remove, for television. Shakepeare is The Bard; Python is well-not.
At first consideration, it would seem that Shakespeare and Monty Python have very little in common other than that they're both English. Shakespeare w...
To a reader of Joyce's Ulysses, it makes a difference whether one of Stephen Dedalus's first thoughts is "No mother" (as in the printed version) or "No, mother " (as in the manuscript). The scholarship surrounding such textual differences--and why this discipline should concern readers and literary scholars alike--is the focus of William Proctor Williams and Craig S. Abbott's acclaimed handbook.
This updated, fourth edition outlines the study of texts' composition, revision, physical embodiments, process of transmission, and manner of reception; describes how new technologies such as...
To a reader of Joyce's Ulysses, it makes a difference whether one of Stephen Dedalus's first thoughts is "No mother" (as in the printed version...
"An expansion and revision of Robert Gathorne-Hardy's original bibliography which appeared in 1930 as part of Logan Pearsall Smith's The golden grove."
"An expansion and revision of Robert Gathorne-Hardy's original bibliography which appeared in 1930 as part of Logan Pearsall Smith's The golden grove....
