E. A. J. Honigmann's The Texts of Othello and Shakespearean Revision PDF

By E. A. J. Honigmann

ISBN-10: 041509271X

ISBN-13: 9780415092715

ISBN-10: 0415865468

ISBN-13: 9780415865463

In a groundbreaking piece of scholarly detective paintings, Professor Honigmann - editor of the approaching Arden three version of Othello - uncovers in additional element than any earlier examine the hidden heritage of the 2 early texts of Othello, the 4to and the Folio. He lines the the most important position performed by means of males in reworking Shakespeare's virtually illegible manuscript to print: Thomas Walkley, the writer of the 4to, and Ralph Crane, the scribe who ready the printer's replica for the Folio.
via cautious research of specific passages Honigmann exposes the level to which models of Othello followed by means of editors and commonly considered as essentially 'Shakespearean' have been profoundly prompted by means of others than Shakespeare himself. wondering time-honoured editorial strategies the findings of Texts of Othello have implications for plenty of different of the performs of the Shakespeare canon, and extra commonly for questions of authorship and the doctrine of the 'better text'.

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