Textual Formations and Reformations

by Maguire, Laurie E.; Berger, Thomas L.

• ISBN13: 9780874136555
• ISBN10: 0874136555
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Delaware Pr

Summary

Valuable to cultural historians and textual scholars alike, this volume analyzes the development of textual theory and practice in the twentieth century, questioning not just the assumptions and methodologies of textual study but its very genesis, as well as current definitions of the field.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	9	(2)
Introduction	11	(12)
LAURIE E. MAGUIRE
Part I: Narratives and the New Bibliography	23	(72)
1. Authentic Reproductions: The Material Origins of the New Bibliography	23	(22)
JOSEPH F. LOEWENSTEIN
2. Touring and the Construction of Shakespeare Textual Criticism	45	(22)
PAUL WERSTINE
3. Greene's Orlando: W. W. Greg Furioso	67	(28)
MICHAEL WARREN
Part II: Interrogatives	95	(66)
4. The Monsters and the Textual Critics	95	(17)
TOM DAVIS
5. How farre is't called to Soris? or, Where was Mr. Hobbs when Charles II died?	112	(19)
A.R. BRAUNMULLER
6. The Problem of Shakespeare's Text(s)	131	(18)
BARBARA A. MOWAT
7. Shakespeare's Most Neglected Play	149	(12)
RICHARD PROUDFOOT
Part III: Contexts	161	(70)
8. Marriage and Divorce in 1613: Elizabeth Cary, Frances Howard, and Others	161	(18)
JEANNE ADDISON ROBERTS
9. The Sexual Politics of Textual Transmission	179	(32)
VALERIE WAYNE
10. "Killed with Hard Opinions": Oldcastle, Falstaff, and the Reformed Text of 1 Henry IV	211	(20)
DAVID SCOTT KASTAN
Part IV: Readings	231	(50)
11. Character Identifications in Two Folio Plays, Coriolanus and All's Well: A Theater Perspective	231	(20)
CHARLES B. LOWER
12. The Taming of a Shrew and the Theories; or, "Though this be badness, yet there is method in't"	251	(13)
STEPHEN MILLER
13. Looking for Cousin Ferdinand: The Value of F1 Stage Directions for a Production of The Taming of the Shrew	264	(17)
RALPH ALAN COHEN
Bibliography	281	(18)
List of Contributors	299	(3)
Index	302