The Struggle for Shakespeare's Text : Twentieth-century Editorial Theory and Practice (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. The fall of pessimism and the rise of New Bibliography, 1902?42; 2. New techniques and the Virginian School: New Bibliography, 1939?68; 3. New Bibliography, 1969?79; Intermezzo: the rise and fall of the theory of memorial reconstruction; 4. New Bibliography critiqued and revised, 1980?90; 5. The 'new' New Bibliography: the Oxford Complete Works, 1978?89; 6. Materialism, unediting and version-editing, 1990?99; Conclusion: the twenty-first century; Appendix I. How early-modern books were made: a brief guide; Appendix II. Table of Shakespeare editions up to 1623; Appendix III. Editorial principles of the major twentieth-century Shakespeare editions; Works cited.