Sir Walter Wilson Greg A Selection of His Writings

by Rosenblum, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780810833999
• ISBN10: 0810833999
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-12
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

This book presents a selection of the writings of Sir Walter Wilson Greg (1875-1959), one of the leading bibliographers of the twentieth century and, along with R.B. McKerrow and A.W. Pollard, the founder of the New Bibliography that dominated twentieth-century textual studies. Students of the history of the book, of Shakespeare, of bibliography, and of library science will find this a valuable resource.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(2)
Preface	ix
Sir Walter Wilson Greg, 1875-1959	1	(28)
F. P. Wilson
Key Works in Bibliography III...W. W. Greg: A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration	29	(6)
Robin Myers
On Certain False Dates in Shakespearian Quartos	35	(34)
Memorial Reconstruction	69	(16)
What Is Bibliography?	85	(12)
Principles of Emendation in Shakespeare	97	(22)
The Present Position of Bibliography	119	(16)
Bibliography--An Apologia	135	(24)
The Function of Bibliography in Literary Criticism Illustrated in a Study of the Text of King Lear	159	(28)
Bibliographical Analysis	187	(14)
The First Folio	201	(12)
The Rationale of Copy-Text	213	(16)
Bibliography of Works by Sir Walter Wilson Greg	229	(10)
About the Editor	239