Textual Performances : The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama (Paperback)

List of illustrations; Preface; List of contributors; Introduction Lukas Erne and Margaret Jane Kidnie; Part I. Establishing the Text: 1. The two texts of Othello and early modern constructions of race Leah S. Marcus; 2. 'Work of permanent utility': editors and texts, authorities and originals H. R. Woudhuysen; 3. Housmania: episodes in twentieth-century 'critical' editing of Shakespeare Paul Werstine; 4. Addressing adaptation: Measure for Measure and Sir Thomas More John Jowett; 5. The New Bibliography and its critics Ernst Honigmann; 6. Scholarly editing and the shift from print to electronic cultures Sonia Massai; Part II. Presenting the Play: 7. 'Your sum of parts': doubling in Hamlet Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor; 8. The perception of error: the editing and the performance of the opening of Coriolanus Michael Warren; 9. Modern spelling: the hard choices David Bevington; 10. The staging of Shakespeare's drama in print editions Margaret Jane Kidnie; 11. Open stage, open page? Editing stage directions in early dramatic texts John D. Cox; 12. Two varieties of digital commentary John Lavagnino; 13. New collaborations with old plays: the (textual) politics of performance commentary Barbara Hodgdon; Index.