Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Canon - Arden Shakespeare (Shakespeare: Text Stage and Canon)

Based on three lectures given by Professor Richard Proudfoot in October 1999 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of The Globe, The Arden Shakespeare's centenary and Professor Proudfoot's retirement from King's College; this enjoyable volume aims to give a general and non-specialist audience some sense of what scholarship has achieved in three critical areas of Shakespeare studies at the end of the twentieth century. Freshly and engagingly written, this lively volume will appeal to all those with an interest in Shakespeare studies. "This volume from the Senior General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series aims to give a general and non-specialist audience some sense of what scholarship has achieved in three critical areas of Shakespeare studies at the end of the twentieth century." "Text: How have ideas about the editing of Shakespeare evolved and changed since the inception of the Arden Shakespeare in 1899? Stage: How can editors of plays indicate awareness of their character as texts for performance in theatrical spaces then and now? Canon: What do we mean when we refer to the 'Complete Works of Shakespeare'? Where, for example, does Edward III belong? How ought consideration of the conditions of writing and production of plays in the commercial theatre of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries affect our sense of Shakespeare as an author of 'works'?" "Based on three lectures given by Professor Richard Proudfoot in October 1999, this study also reflects three focal points of his own engagement with Shakespeare's plays over forty years, in its aim to relate the present state of editorial, theatrical and canonic scholarship to earlier orthodoxies and traditions. It is also intended to counter a general tendency, observable in academic writing of the past twenty years, to write of Shakespeare as if all scholarship from before 1980 is best consigned to oblivion, by indicating some of the continuities in three areas of that scholarship." "Freshly and engagingly written, this lively volume will appeal to all those with an interest in Shakespeare studies."--BOOK JACKET Cover Half-title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Foreword Preface 1 Text 2 Stage 3 Canon Notes Index