Shakespeare / Text

<i>Shakespeare / Text</i> sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary - such as book/theatre source/adaptation text/paratext canon/apocrypha sense/nonsense extant/ephemeral material/digital and original/copy - that has come to both define and limit the way we read analyze teach perform and edit Shakespeare today.<br/> <br/> Drawing on methods from book history bibliography editorial theory library science the digital humanities theatre studies and literary criticism the collection as a whole proposes that our understanding of Shakespeare - and early modern drama more broadly - changes radically when 'either/or' approaches to the Shakespearean text are reconfigured. The chapters in <i>Shakespeare / Text</i> make strong cases for challenging received wisdom and offer new portable methods of treating 'the text' in its myriad instantiations that will be useful to scholars editors theatre practitioners teachers and librarians.