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The Four Shakespeare Folios, 16232023 Samuel V. Lemley (Carnegie Mellon University)

The Four Shakespeare Folios, 16232023 By Samuel V. Lemley (Carnegie Mellon University)

The Four Shakespeare Folios, 16232023 by Samuel V. Lemley (Carnegie Mellon University)


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The Four Shakespeare Folios, 16232023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type by Samuel V. Lemley (Carnegie Mellon University)

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, more widely known as the First Folio, contains thirty-six of the thirty-eight plays attributed in whole or in part to Shakespeare. Published in 1623, it has been the object of continued scholarly focus, while three subsequent folio printingsoccurring in 1632, 1663/64, and 1685are often considered mere derivatives of the First. This volume endeavors to correct and give nuance to this view.

Considering the evolution of Shakespeare in print through these successive Folios, this book seeks a new direction for Shakespeare bibliographyone that trends toward more discursive, contingent, and embodied evidence and away from questions of textual priority. Written by leading scholars of Shakespeare in print, the chapters present an overview of current research and relate new work on unsettled questions about the bibliography of Shakespeares plays. This book challenges the view that the survival of Shakespeares plays was due primarily to the survival of the First Folio. Rather, the four Folios each contributed to the gradual elevation of Shakespeare in the English literary canon.

The contributors to this volume include Erin C. Blake, Claire M. L. Bourne, Zachary Lesser, Tara L. Lyons, and Andrew Murphy, with a concluding chapter by Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Laura S. DeLuca, Elizabeth Dieterich, Kartik Goyal, Max GSell, Samuel V. Lemley, D. J. Schuldt, Kari Thomas, Nikolai Vogler, and Christopher N. Warren, and a foreword by Keith Webster.

About Samuel V. Lemley (Carnegie Mellon University)

Samuel V. Lemley is Curator of Special Collections at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries.

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The Four Shakespeare Folios, 16232023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type by Samuel V. Lemley (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Pennsylvania State University Press
2024-05-27
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