Zachary Lesser

Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes

Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée

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Produktbeschreibung

Four years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a "collected works" of William Shakespeare as a series of quarto pamphlets. Zachary Lesser examines more than three hundred surviving copies of these "Pavier Quartos," revealing they are far more mysterious than we thought.

Produktdetails

• Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780812252941
• ISBN-10: 0812252942
• Artikelnr.: 60319998

Autorenporträt

Zachary Lesser is the Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Hamlet" After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Ghosts
Chapter 2. Holes
Chapter 3. Rips and Scrapes
Conclusion. Questions
Appendix A. Census of Known Sets of the 1619 Quartos
Appendix B. Order of Plays in Known Bindings of the 1619 Quartos
Appendix C. Copies Consulted
Notes
Index