Shakespearean Suspect Texts: The 'Bad' Quartos and Their Contexts

by Laurie Maguire

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There are forty-one problematic play texts, variously classified as bad quartos or memorial reconstructions, from Shakespeare's time. Textual criticism of these quartos has been fraught with assumption and contradiction. Maguire examines all the texts in detail. She deconstructs the theories of W.W. Greg and his followers, scrutinizing the methods by which critics diagnose texts as bad, and examines the historical evidence for the concept of memorial...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521033489

ISBN13:9780521033480

Release Date:February 2007

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:448 Pages

Weight:1.44 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

17th Century British & Irish Criticism & Theory Drama Education & Reference English Literature History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature

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