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Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators (Shakespeare Now)
Lukas Erne
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Description for Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators (Shakespeare Now)
Paperback. Suggesting that textual mediators have a positive rather than negative role, this book argues that any reader of Shakespeare, scholar, student, or general reader, approaches Shakespeare through edited versions that have a relationship to what Shakespeare may actually have intended and written. Series: Shakespeare Now!. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 164.
Recent work in Shakespeare studies has brought to the forefront a variety of ways in which the collaborative nature of Shakespearean drama can be investigated: collaborative performance (Shakespeare and his fellow actors); collaborative writing (Shakespeare and his co-authors); collaborative textual production (Shakespeare and his transcribers and printers). What this leaves unaccounted for is the form of collaboration that affects more than any other our modern reading experience of Shakespeare's plays: what we read as Shakespeare now always comes to us in the form of a collaborative enterprise - and is decisively shaped by the nature of the collaboration - between ... Read more
Recent work in Shakespeare studies has brought to the forefront a variety of ways in which the collaborative nature of Shakespearean drama can be investigated: collaborative performance (Shakespeare and his fellow actors); collaborative writing (Shakespeare and his co-authors); collaborative textual production (Shakespeare and his transcribers and printers). What this leaves unaccounted for is the form of collaboration that affects more than any other our modern reading experience of Shakespeare's plays: what we read as Shakespeare now always comes to us in the form of a collaborative enterprise - and is decisively shaped by the nature of the collaboration - between ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Shakespeare Now!
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780826489968
SKU
V9780826489968
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About Lukas Erne
Lukas Erne is Professor of English Literature at the University of Geneva. He is author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (Cambridge, 2003). He has taught at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, at the University of Neuchatel and, as Visiting Professor, at Yale University.
Reviews for Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators (Shakespeare Now)
"Where is Shakespeare now? This question is the brief for a new series of short books from Continuum, an enterprising publisher trying to break down the border between academic literary criticism and books for the thoughtful reader." Jonathan Bate, The Daily Telegraph"