"This wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, and on how the now iconic book has been continually reimagined after its initial publication to the present day. Bringing together a set of ground-breaking essays by international scholars, chapters consider reader-assembled volumes as precursors to the Folio; the poetic identity of Shakespeare; and how crises and successes in the early modern printing house shaped Shakespeare's text. Others examine its often surprising afterlives, and how…mehr
"This wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, and on how the now iconic book has been continually reimagined after its initial publication to the present day. Bringing together a set of ground-breaking essays by international scholars, chapters consider reader-assembled volumes as precursors to the Folio; the poetic identity of Shakespeare; and how crises and successes in the early modern printing house shaped Shakespeare's text. Others examine its often surprising afterlives, and how it became the basis of Shakespeare's unique position in literary history"--
Matthias Bauer is Professor of English Philology at the University of Tübingen, Germany and specializes in early modern literature, with a particular focus on Shakespeare and Metaphysical Poetry. With Angelika Zirker he co-chairs a project, funded by the German National Research Foundation, on 'Co-Creativity in Early Modern English Literature.' Angelika Zirker is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Her publications include William Shakespeare and John Donne: Stages of the Soul in Early Modern English Poetry (2019), and she is the co-editor, with Matthias Bauer, of Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements A Note on Texts 'To Think These Trifles Some-Thing': Introduction Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker (University of Tübingen Germany) 1. Alternative Collections: Shakespeare Beyond the First Folio Ben Higgins (University of Oxford UK) 2. 'All His Comedies Histories and Tragedies': The (In)complete Works of Shakespeare David Scott Kastan (Yale University USA) 3. First Folio Blunders in Picture Poems and Plays Tiffany Stern (University of Birmingham UK) 4. The First Folio as a Sacred Text Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker (University of Tübingen Germany) 5. 'The Famous Scenicke Poet': Ben Jonson Hugh Holland and Poetic Identity in the First Folio Tom Cook (University of Birmingham UK) 6. 'The Folio of This World': Creation and Literary Heritage in Ulysses Claudia Olk (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Germany) 7. The First Folio in Spain: The Gondomar Case Jennifer Ruiz-Morgan (University of Extremadura Spain) 8. On the Meisei First Folios Noriko Sumimoto (Meisei University Japan) 9. To Particularize Their Abundance: The Folger First Folios Studied and Shared as a Collection Greg Prickman (Folger Shakespeare Library USA) 10. Afterword Emma Smith (University of Oxford UK) Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements A Note on Texts 'To Think These Trifles Some-Thing': Introduction Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker (University of Tübingen Germany) 1. Alternative Collections: Shakespeare Beyond the First Folio Ben Higgins (University of Oxford UK) 2. 'All His Comedies Histories and Tragedies': The (In)complete Works of Shakespeare David Scott Kastan (Yale University USA) 3. First Folio Blunders in Picture Poems and Plays Tiffany Stern (University of Birmingham UK) 4. The First Folio as a Sacred Text Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker (University of Tübingen Germany) 5. 'The Famous Scenicke Poet': Ben Jonson Hugh Holland and Poetic Identity in the First Folio Tom Cook (University of Birmingham UK) 6. 'The Folio of This World': Creation and Literary Heritage in Ulysses Claudia Olk (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Germany) 7. The First Folio in Spain: The Gondomar Case Jennifer Ruiz-Morgan (University of Extremadura Spain) 8. On the Meisei First Folios Noriko Sumimoto (Meisei University Japan) 9. To Particularize Their Abundance: The Folger First Folios Studied and Shared as a Collection Greg Prickman (Folger Shakespeare Library USA) 10. Afterword Emma Smith (University of Oxford UK) Bibliography Index
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