Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 79
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Reformation Memory-Work in Late Shakespeare
- Shakespeare’s Late Plays: The Last Rites of Chivalry
- Inflexions of Lateness in Pericles
- Time’s Queer ‘Recoil’ in The Winter’s Tale
- Shakespeare’s Bohemia and Oyeyemi’s Druhástrana: Gingerbread’s Appropriations of The Winter’s Tale
- Held in Silence: Trauma and the Ethics of Response in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Ali Smith’s Summer
- ‘Baseless Fabric’: Prospero’s Other Spirits
- The Figurative Platea: Foolish-Wise Subplotters in The Tempest
- ‘O World, Thy Slippery Turns!’: An Epicurean Coriolanus
- If Biscuits Be the Food of Love: Huntley & Palmers’s Twelfth Night in Little
- Second Thoughts about Othello
- Slow-Motion Rhetoric in Titus Andronicus
- Sensory Shakespeare: Performance Pedagogies and Special Education
- #Shaxrace: Teaching Shakespeare and Race through Performance
- Eco-Shakespeare, Race and Pedagogy: ‘Invasive Species’
- Imitation as a Teaching Technique in The Taming of the Shrew and Erasmus’s Colloquies
- Knowing the Minds of Others: Hamlet and Neurodiversity
- Freetown
- Sexual Shame, Reputation and Early Modern Community Practices: Measure for Measure
- Shakespeare’s Ark: The 1632 Folio
- ‘I Am Set Naked on Your Kingdom’: Hamlet, The Spanish Tragedy and Arden of Faversham
- ‘When I Read Shakespeare I Become Greater’: Flaubert’s Shakespeare
- Of Tempests: Shakespeare, Césaire and the choc en retour
- Hamlet, the Opera
- Avignon Shakespeare: Inheriting the Bard in Contemporary France
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2025
- Productions Outside London, 2025
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- 1.Critical Studies
- 2.Editions and Textual Studies
- 3.Shakespeare in Performance, 2024–2025
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 79
- Index
- References
2. - Editions and Textual Studies
from The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2026
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Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 79
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Reformation Memory-Work in Late Shakespeare
- Shakespeare’s Late Plays: The Last Rites of Chivalry
- Inflexions of Lateness in Pericles
- Time’s Queer ‘Recoil’ in The Winter’s Tale
- Shakespeare’s Bohemia and Oyeyemi’s Druhástrana: Gingerbread’s Appropriations of The Winter’s Tale
- Held in Silence: Trauma and the Ethics of Response in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Ali Smith’s Summer
- ‘Baseless Fabric’: Prospero’s Other Spirits
- The Figurative Platea: Foolish-Wise Subplotters in The Tempest
- ‘O World, Thy Slippery Turns!’: An Epicurean Coriolanus
- If Biscuits Be the Food of Love: Huntley & Palmers’s Twelfth Night in Little
- Second Thoughts about Othello
- Slow-Motion Rhetoric in Titus Andronicus
- Sensory Shakespeare: Performance Pedagogies and Special Education
- #Shaxrace: Teaching Shakespeare and Race through Performance
- Eco-Shakespeare, Race and Pedagogy: ‘Invasive Species’
- Imitation as a Teaching Technique in The Taming of the Shrew and Erasmus’s Colloquies
- Knowing the Minds of Others: Hamlet and Neurodiversity
- Freetown
- Sexual Shame, Reputation and Early Modern Community Practices: Measure for Measure
- Shakespeare’s Ark: The 1632 Folio
- ‘I Am Set Naked on Your Kingdom’: Hamlet, The Spanish Tragedy and Arden of Faversham
- ‘When I Read Shakespeare I Become Greater’: Flaubert’s Shakespeare
- Of Tempests: Shakespeare, Césaire and the choc en retour
- Hamlet, the Opera
- Avignon Shakespeare: Inheriting the Bard in Contemporary France
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2025
- Productions Outside London, 2025
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- 1.Critical Studies
- 2.Editions and Textual Studies
- 3.Shakespeare in Performance, 2024–2025
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 79
- Index
- References
Summary
In terms of published material about Shakespeare editions and the editing work that goes into producing them, it is best to say that 2025 has been a period of publication, anticipation and surprise. This year, the steady continued production of the New Oxford Shakespeare editions has accompanied informative and entertaining public conversations hosted by Oxford University online featuring General Editor Emma Smith and various writers of the introductions. In 2026, several more Oxford World’s Classics (OWC) Shakespeare editions will be released. There is also the much anticipated release of the Arden Fourth Series, set for May 2026, which begins with its inaugural plays Titus Andronicus, edited by Ayanna Thompson and Curtis Perry, As You Like It edited by Tom Bishop, and Julius Caesar, edited by Andrew James Hartley. The series is helmed by general editors Peter Holland, Tiffany Stern and Zachary Lesser.
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- Shakespeare Survey 79Late Shakespeare, pp. 323 - 332Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
References
Works Reviewed
Akhimie, Patricia, “‘The goodness of the night’: editing Othello”’, Shakespeare Quarterly 76 (2025), 226–53, doi:10.1093/sq/quaf034CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bachrach, Hailey, and Pruitt, Anna eds., Richard II. The New Oxford Shakespeare Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford, 2025)Google Scholar
Bouchard, Mathieu D. S. ‘Editing Arden: the Dramatis Personae list in As You Like It’, Shakespeare 21 (2025), 173–98, doi:10.1080/17450918.2024.2377196CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Burrows, Ian, and Neville, Sarah eds., Comedy of Errors. The New Oxford Shakespeare Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford, 2025)Google Scholar
Gilchrist, Kim, and Loughnane, Rory eds., Cymbeline. The New Oxford Shakespeare Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford, 2025)Google Scholar
Held, Joshua R. ‘Editing cruxes in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream: folio, quarto, performance’, Shakespeare 20 (2024), 9–27, doi:10.1080/17450918.2023.2244482CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Loughnane, Rory, and Maley, Willy, Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare, Cambridge Elements: Shakespeare and Text (Cambridge, 2025)Google Scholar
McCarthy, Harry, Taylor, Gary, Bourus, Terri, Loughnane, Rory, Pruitt, Anna and Connor, Francis X., eds., Titus Andronicus, The New Oxford Shakespeare Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford, 2025)Google Scholar
Stagg, Robert, ‘Close reading drama: Eric Griffiths on William Shakespeare’, in Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Skills for Scholars), ed. Sinykin, Dan and Winant, Johanna (Princeton, 2025)Google Scholar
Wright, Laura Jayne, and Sharpe, Will, eds., Henry VIII; or All Is True, The New Oxford Shakespeare Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford, 2025)Google Scholar
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