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Early modern playhouse manuscripts and the editing of Shakespeare /
"London Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare argues for editing Shakespeare's plays in a new way, without pretending to distinguish authorial from theatrical versions. Drawing on the work of the influential scholars A.W. Pollard and W.W. Greg, Werstine tackles the difficult...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- List of abbreviations, short titles, and symbols
- Introduction: reading W.W. Greg
- Chapter 1 The discovery of "foul papers"
- Greg's 1927 analysis and theory of the Bonduca texts
- Greg's later theories of the Bonduca texts
- Reception of "foul papers" by Shakespeare editors
- The failed search for extant examples of "foul papers"
- The Bonduca "foul papers" and early printed Shakespeare plays
- Shifting passages
- Lacunae
- Problems with "foul papers"
- Notes
- Chapter 2 Redefining "foul papers"
- Stage adaptation of Bonduca
- Knight as scribe
- Knight's rearrangement of the Bonduca text
- Knight's SPP
- Knight's lacunae
- Knight's SDD
- Knight's term "Foul papers"
- Notes
- Chapter 3 Playhouse MSS: what bookkeepers did not do
- The Early Greg on Backstage Plots and Theatrical Playbooks
- Greg the Shakespeare textual critic on theatrical playbooks
- Variation and ambiguity in naming in theatrical texts
- Stage directions: errors of inclusion and exclusion
- Indefinite and petitory stage directions
- Some interventions by bookkeepers
- Identifying the nature of the lost MSS behind the Shakespeare printed plays
- Notes
- Chapter 4 Playhouse MSS: what bookkeepers did
- Naming
- Stage directions: errors of commission and omission
- Bordeaux
- Captives
- Ironside
- Moore
- Noble Ladys
- Indefinite SDD
- Loose ends, false starts and unresolved confusions
- Duplications in dialogue
- Actors' names
- Bordeaux
- SM/LT
- Noble Ladys
- Ironside
- Beleeue
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 5 Behind the stage/in the tiring house
- The bookkeeper's duties before performance
- The prompter's duties during performance
- Warning SDD
- The King's Revels Company in the 1630s
- Warnings in Embassador
- Notes
- Conclusion: empirical editing of Shakespeare
- Notes.
- The manuscripts
- Descriptions of the texts
- Dates
- Dramatic content
- Material description
- Hands and inks
- Theatrical provenance
- Some features common to playhouse texts
- 1.?Anthony Munday's Iohn A kent & Iohn a Cumber (Kent) Huntington Library, HM 500?1587-96
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 2.?Robert Greene's [John of Bordeaux or The Second Part of Friar Bacon] (Bordeaux) Alnwick Castle MS 507 1590-1600
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 3.?Anthony Munday's, Henry Chettle's,?Thomas Heywood's,?William Shakespeare's, and Thomas Dekker's Sir Thomas Moore (Moore) British Library MS Harl. 7368 1586?-1605?
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 4. [Charlemagne or the Distracted Emperor] (Charlemagne) British Library MS Egerton 19946?1604-7
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 5. [The First Part of the Reign of King Richard the Second, or Thomas of Woodstock] (Woodstock) British Library MS Egerton 19948 c. 1590-?1610
- Description and hands
- Inks
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 6.?Thomas Middleton's The second Maydens tragedy [or The Lady's Tragedy] (SM/LT) British Library MS Lansdowne 807 October 31, 1611
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 7. John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's TTragedy of Sr Iohn Van Olden Barnauelt (Barnauelt) British Library MS Additional 18653 August, 1619
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 8. The 2. Noble Ladys, and The Converted Coniurer (Noble Ladys) British Library MS Egerton 199411 1619-23
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 9. Edmond Ironside The English King (Ironside) British Library MS Egerton 19945 1593-1624
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance.
- 10. The Welsh Embassador (Embassador) Cardiff Public Library MS 4.12 1623-4
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 11. Thomas Heywood's [The Captives] (Captives) British Library MS Egerton 19943 September 3, 1624
- CaptivesDescription and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 12. Philip Massinger's The Parliamt of Love (Parliamt) Victoria and Albert Museum MS Dyce 25.F.33. November 3, 1624
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 13. Nathan Field, John Fletcher, and Philip Massinger's The Honest mans Fortune (HMF) Victoria and Albert Museum MS Dyce 25.F.9 February 8, 1624/25
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 14. Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene's A Looking glasse, for london and England (Looking glasse) Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago PR2297.L8 160- 1605-25?
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 15. John Clavell's The Sodderd Cittizen (Sodderd) Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office MS 865/502/2 1628-30
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 16. Philip Massinger's Beleeue as you List (Beleeue) British Library MS Egerton 2828 May 6, 1631
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 17. Walter Mountfort's The Lanchinge of the Mary ... Or the Seamans honest wyfe (Lanchinge) British Library MS Egerton 199415 June 27, 1633
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 18. John Fletcher's Bonduca Queene of Brittaine (Bonduca) British Library MS Additional 36758 1619 (or?1616)-35
- Description and hands
- Evidence of theatrical provenance
- 19. Henry Glapthorne's the Lady=mot<her (Lady=mother) British Library MS Egerton 19949 October 15, 1635
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance.
- 20. The waspe (Waspe) Alnwick Castle MS 507 1636-40
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 21. Edward Sharpham's The Fleire (Fleire) British Library 11773.c.8?1607-?1650
- Synopsis (of the uncut version)
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- 22. J.C.'s [A Pleasant Comedie, Called The Two Merry Milke-Maids. Or, The Best Words weare the Garland] (Milke-Maids) Folger Shakespeare Library STC 4281 copy 2 1620-80?
- Description and hands
- Evidence for theatrical provenance
- Appendix A Characteristics of Gregian "foul papers" in playhouse texts
- Naming
- (1) Multiple designations of the same character in SDD and SPP
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes (including dubitable Charlemagne and Woodstock)
- MSS by theatrical scribes
- Authorial MSS (including dubitable Kent and Moore)
- Printed texts
- (2) Ambiguous character designations
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes (including dubitable Woodstock)
- MSS by theatrical scribes
- Authorial MSS (including dubitable Kent and Moore)
- Printed texts
- (3) Dialogue errors in naming
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes
- SPP
- (4) Erroneous SPP
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes (including dubitable Woodstock)
- MSS by theatrical scribes
- Authorial MSS (including dubitable Kent)
- Printed texts
- (5) Misplaced SPP
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes
- MSS by theatrical scribes
- Authorial MSS
- (6) Missing SPP
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes (including dubitable Woodstock)
- MSS by theatrical scribes
- Authorial MSS
- Printed texts
- SDD, principally entrances
- (7) Missing entrances (Greg notes that "specification of re-entry is exceptional in early texts" [1955, 133])
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes (including dubitable Charlemagne and Woodstock).
- MSS by theatrical scribes
- Authorial MSS (including dubitable Moore)
- Printed texts
- (8) Indefinite entrances involving speakers
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes (including dubitable Woodstock)
- MSS by theatrical scribes
- Authorial MSS (including dubitable Kent and Moore)
- Printed texts
- (9) Other indefinite SDD
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes (including dubitable Charlemagne and Woodstock)
- MSS by theatrical scribes
- Authorial MSS (including dubitable Kent and Moore)
- Printed texts
- (10) Omission of necessary characters from SDD
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes (including dubitable Woodstock)
- MSS by theatrical scribes
- Authorial MSS
- Printed texts
- (11) Inclusion of unnecessary characters in entrance directions
- Authorial MSS
- (12) Mutes and ghosts
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes (including dubitable Charlemagne and Woodstock)
- MSS by theatrical scribes
- Authorial MSS (including dubitable Kent)
- Printed texts
- (13) Double entrances
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes (including dubitable Woodstock)
- Authorial MSS (including dubitable Kent)
- (14) Erroneous SDD
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes (including dubitable Woodstock)
- MSS by theatrical scribes
- (15) Petitory SDD
- Authorial MSS (including dubitable Kent and Moore)
- Exits
- (16) Missing exits
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes (including dubitable Woodstock)
- MSS by theatrical scribes
- Authorial MSS (including dubitable Moore)
- Printed texts
- (17) Misplaced SDD, principally exits
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes (including dubitable Woodstock)
- MSS by theatrical scribes
- Authorial MSS (including dubitable Moore)
- Revision and deletion
- (18) Marginal insertions of dialogue
- MSS by apparently non-theatrical scribes.