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Shakespeare Domesticated: The Eighteenth-Century Editions [Hardcover]

Colin Franklin (Author)

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Publication Date: August 1991

This book is a general survey of Shakespeare's 18th-century editions and editors, including prefaces and footnote debates, editorial concern about Shakespeare's "learning", his meaning, his coarseness and his puns. There are also chapters on the illustrations, and growth of critical apparatus. It covers the period from Nicholas Rowe (1709) to the 21-volume Boswell-Malone variorum (1821), generally accepted as the foundation of modern Shakespeare scholarship. Rowe was the pioneer in attempting to retrieve a true text, and his six octavo volumes with their pleasant engravings offered the first "library edition" of Shakespeare. Colin Franklin follows the editorial and publishing history of these works through passionate disputes which divided Pope from Theobald, Warburton from Hanmer, Steevens from Malone, analyzing Johnson's calmer position among them.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Scolar Pr (August 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0859678342
ISBN-13: 978-0859678346
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,607,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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