Shakespeare As Literary Dramatist by Lukas Erne (English) Paperback Book

Description: Shakespeare As Literary Dramatist by Lukas Erne Ernes groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare wrote his plays not only with audiences but also with readers in mind. This second edition includes a substantial, 10,000-word preface that reviews and intervenes in the controversy that the book has triggered. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Now in a new edition, Lukas Ernes groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare, apart from being a playwright who wrote theatrical texts for the stage, was also a literary dramatist who produced reading texts for the page. Examining the evidence from early published playbooks, Erne argues that Shakespeare wrote many of his plays with a readership in mind and that these literary texts would have been abridged for the stage because they were too long for performance. The variant early texts of Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Hamlet are shown to reveal important insights into the different media for which Shakespeare designed his plays. This revised and updated edition includes a new and substantial preface that reviews and intervenes in the controversy the study has triggered and lists reviews, articles and books which respond to or build on the first edition. Author Biography Lukas Erne is Professor of English at the University of Geneva. He has been the Fowler Hamilton Research Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and the recipient of research fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Huntington Library. Lukas Ernes other publications include this books sequel Shakespeare and the Book Trade (2013), Shakespeares Modern Collaborators (2008) and Beyond The Spanish Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (2001). He is also the editor, with Guillemette Bolens, of Medieval and Early Modern Authorship (2011), of The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet (2007) and, with M. J. Kidnie, of Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeares Drama (2004). The first edition of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist was published in 2003 and was named a book of the year in the Times Literary Supplement. Table of Contents Preface to the second edition; Introduction; Part I. Publication: 1. The legitimation of printed playbooks in Shakespeares time; 2. The making of Shakespeare; 3. Shakespeare and the publication of his plays (I): the late sixteenth century; 4. Shakespeare and the publication of his plays (II): the early seventeenth century; 5. The players alleged opposition to print; Part II. Texts: 6. Why size matters: the two hours traffic of our stage and the length of Shakespeares plays; 7. Editorial policy and the length of Shakespeares plays; 8. Bad quartos and their origins: Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Hamlet; 9. Theatricality, literariness, and the texts of Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Hamlet; Appendix A: the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in print, 1584-1623; Appendix B: Heminge and Condells Stolne, and surreptitious copies and the Pavier quartos; Appendix C: Shakespeare and the circulation of dramatic manuscripts. Review Reviews of the first edition: The years best book on Shakespeare. Jonathan Bate, The Times Literary Supplement An exceedingly learned book ... I must say I found this mustered evidence and these arguments completely gripping. James Fenton, The New York Review of Books Among the most significant works of Shakespearean scholarship in recent years. MacDonald Jackson, University of Auckland Lukas Ernes new book is certainly one of the most fascinating, thought-provoking, and lucid studies of Shakespeare I can remember reading. Robert C. Evans, Ben Jonson Journal Lukas Ernes brilliant new book ... sets out probably the most exhilarating change in our image of Shakespeare as a writer for decades ... Erne is brilliant at reconsidering evidence, taking a quizzical view of comments and facts that we had understood in one way for so long that we had forgotten to keep asking whether they could be read in other and better ways. It is the work of a scholar who here and in the years to come has a vast amount to teach us about Shakespeare, making him new, just as every performance makes the particular play new ... Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame The notion is familiar. Shakespeare - actor, playwright, man of the theatre - was a producer of scripts, devoted to their production in the playhouse, but indifferent to their appearance in print. Lukas Erne challenges this notion, with a persuasive picture of a Shakespeare conscious of having been read and reread, excerpted and anthologized; a writer writing with a readership in mind. Ernes book, which draws together the recent isolated conclusions of a number of scholars, builds on their foundations a more radical thesis, and makes it difficult to see how so many of us could have been taken in for so long by the unlikely image of a jobbing playwright. Nicholas Robins, The Times Literary Supplement [Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist] will certainly change our future discourse about dramatic texts and about Shakespeare. Richard Knowles, Modern Philology [Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist] will serve to set new directions for Renaissance scholarship. Andrew Murphy, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England An excellent and scrupulously researched book ... this may well, then, be one of those rare books that changes how Shakespeare is perceived and edited. Colin Burrow, Shakespeare Quarterly Erne achieves nothing less than the complete undoing of our understanding of Shakespeare as author. Dympna Callaghan, Studies in English Literature Ernes book is marvellously researched, meticulously annotated, sensitively illustrated, and delivered in clear, refulgent prose ... its conclusions are so engaging that its arguments will become well known by a generation or more of Shakespeareans. Kevin de Ornellas, New Theatre Quarterly An important book whose careful engagement with difficult questions and often conflicting evidence will command serious attention in Shakespearian scholarship. Lawrence Manley, Renaissance Journal Review Quote The notion is familiar. Shakespeare - actor, playwright, man of the theatre - was a producer of scripts, devoted to their production in the playhouse, but indifferent to their appearance in print. Lukas Erne challenges this notion, with a persuasive picture of a Shakespeare conscious of having been read and reread, excerpted and anthologized; a writer writing with a readership in mind. Ernes book, which draws together the recent isolated conclusions of a number of scholars, builds on their foundations a more radical thesis, and makes it difficult to see how so many of us could have been taken in for so long by the unlikely image of a jobbing playwright. Nicholas Robins, The Times Literary Supplement Promotional "Headline" This second edition of Ernes groundbreaking study includes a new preface that reviews the controversy the book has triggered. Description for Bookstore Ernes groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare wrote his plays not only with audiences but also with readers in mind. This second edition includes a substantial, 10,000-word preface that reviews and intervenes in the controversy that the book has triggered. Description for Library Ernes groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare wrote his plays not only with audiences but also with readers in mind. This second edition includes a substantial, 10,000-word preface that reviews and intervenes in the controversy that the book has triggered. Details ISBN1107685060 Author Lukas Erne Year 2013 ISBN-10 1107685060 ISBN-13 9781107685062 Media Book Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Language English Publication Date 2013-04-25 Pages 323 Short Title SHAKESPEARE AS LITERARY DRAMAT Edition 2nd DEWEY 822.33 Abridged Yes Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Replaces 9780521045667 Edition Description Revised Affiliation Universite de Geneve Format Paperback Audience Professional and Scholarly UK Release Date 2013-04-25 AU Release Date 2013-04-25 NZ Release Date 2013-04-25 Illustrations 12 Halftones, unspecified We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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