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Subject(s)

• Shakespeare, William 1564-1616—Authorship [Browse]
• Shakespeare, William 1564-1616—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Loughnane, Rory [Browse]
• Sharpe, Will [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

"The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship draws together leading and emerging scholars of Shakespeare and early modern literature to consider anew how authorship worked in the time in which Shakespeare wrote, and to interrogate the construction of the Shakespeare-as-author figure. Composed of four main sections, it offers fresh analysis of the literary and cultural influences and forces that 'formed' authors in the period; the 'mechanics' of early modern authorship; the 'mediation' of Shakespeare and others' works in performance, manuscript, and print; and the critical and popular reimagining across times of Shakespeare as an author figure. Diving into modern debates about early modern authorship, authority, and identity politics, contributors supply rich new accounts of the wider scene of professional authorship in early modern England, of how Shakespeare's writings contributed to it, and of what made him distinctive within it. Looking beyond Shakespeare, the Handbook seeks to provide a vital testing ground for new research into early modern literature and culture more broadly." -- Publisher's description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : identity, authority, authenticity / Rory Loughnane
• Part I. Shakespeare and author formation. Classical inheritance / Heather James
• Medieval inheritance / Tamara Atkin
• Religion / Adrian Streete
• Language and sociolect / Mel Evans
• Gender / Gilberta Golinelli and Iolanda Plescia
• Sexuality / Bruce R. Smith
• Kinds of author / Andrew Hadfield
• Textual environments / Andrew Gordon
• Material environments / Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson
• Theatrical environments / Terri Bourus
• Competition / Jeremy Lopez
• Economics / Martin Wiggins and Meryl Faiers
• Part II. Shakespeare and the mechanics of authorship. Research / Dennis Austin Britton and Melissa Walter
• Tools and materials / Joshua Calhoun and Jonathan Walker
• Solo authorship / Andrew Mattison
• Collaboration / Heather A. Hirschfeld
• Casting / Andrew J. Power
• Music / Amanda Eubanks Winkler
• Revision and adaptation / Will Sharpe
• Genre / Brett Greatley-Hirsch and Sarah Neville
• Form / Lisa Hopkins
• Style / Hugh Craig
• Part III. Mediating Shakespeare as author. Early performance / James J. Marino
• Preliminaries and paratexts / Amy Lidster
• Textual space / Jennifer Young
• Typography / Claire M. L. Bourne
• Variant texts / John Jowett
• Collections / Tara L. Lyons
• Annotation / Eric Rasmussen and Ian de Jong
• Editing and canonization, 1623-2023 / José A. Pérez Díez
• Part IV. Concepts and critiques. Literary author / Patrick Cheney
• Court dramatist / Eoin Price and Catherine Clifford
• Populist / Chris Fitter
• National playwright / Claire McEachern
• Attribution and editing / Jesús Tronch
• Attribution and intersectionality / Rachel White
• Feminist authorship studies / Cristina León Alfar
• Queer authorship studies / Alan Stewart
• Authorship and othering / Michael Joel Bartelle
• Screening authorship, performativity, and transness / Alexa Alice Joubin
• Authorship and cognitive studies / Laurie Johnson
• Ecologies of authorship / Vin Nardizzi
• The politics of attribution / Gary Taylor.

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ISBN

• 9780198852414 (hardcover)
• 019885241X (hardcover)

OCLC

1510823266

Other standard number

• CIPO000271591

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