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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2016
      04 August 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316162552
      9781107098787
      9781107491687
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781316162552
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 216 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.31kg, 218 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest
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    Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the world's most studied books, prompting speculation about everything from proof-reading practices in the early modern publishing industry to the 'true' authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Arguments about the nature of the First Folio are crucial to every modern edition of Shakespeare and thus to every reader or student of the plays. This Companion surveys the critical methods brought to bear on the Folio and equips readers with the tools to understand it and to develop their skills in early modern book culture more generally. A team of international scholars surveys the range of bibliographic, historical and textual material relating to the Folio, its editors, collectors and critical reception. This revealing volume will be of wide interest to scholars of Shakespeare, the history of the book and early modern drama.

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    '… takes the reader on a journey through the history of perhaps the book world’s most famous literary edition. … Readers of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s First Folio are lucky. Not only because they have in their hands an excellent resource that will elucidate many aspects of the edition, but also because modern digital renderings of the First Folio are now more accessible than ever.'

    William J. Humphries Source: The Seventeenth Century

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    Further Reading

    Bate, Jonathan and Rasmussen, Eric, with Sewell, Jan and Sharpe, Will (eds.), William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
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    Erne, Lukas, Shakespeare and the Book Trade (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
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    Clair, William, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
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    West, Anthony James, The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book, Volume I: An Account of the First Folio Based on its Sales and Prices, 1623–2000 (Oxford University Press, 2001).
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    Williams, Owen and Lazzuri, Caryn (eds.), Foliomania! Stories Behind Shakespeare’s Most Important Book (Washington DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011).
    Willoughby, Edwin, A Printer of Shakespeare: The Books and Times of William Jaggard (London, Philip Allan & Co, 1934).

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