Shakespeare Survey Volume 59, Editing Shakespeare [Paperback]

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 59 is 'Editing Shakespeare'.Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays. The theme for Shakespeare Survey 59 is 'Editing Shakespeare'.Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays. The theme for Shakespeare Survey 59 is 'Editing Shakespeare'.Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start. Most volumes of Survey have long been out of print. Back numbers are gradually being reissued in paperback. The theme for Shakespeare Survey 59 is 'Editing Shakespeare'.Part I: 1. Editing Shakespeare's plays in the twentieth century John Jowett; 2. Crisis in editing? Edward Pechter; 3. On being a general editor Stanley Wells; 4. Altering the letter of Twelfth Night: 'Some are born great' and the missing signature Patricia Parker; 5. 'A thousand Shylocks': Orson Welles and The Merchant of Venice Tom Rooney; 6. The date and authorship of hand D's contribution to Sir Thomas More: evilSI