Shakespeare reshaped, 1606-1623
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Clarendon Press (GB) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780198122562 |
| Open Library | OL2972291W |
| Total publications | 2 |
| Coverage period | 1993 - 1993 |
| Language | EN |
This book explores the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were reshaped in his lifetime and up till the publication of the First Folio, and the kinds of outside interference to which they were subjected. As well as the powers of censorship of the Master of the Revels, in this period these included moves to expurgate profanity; major changes in theatrical conventions, notably the imposition of act divisions; and the late introduction of material by other hands. Political censorship of individual plays has already been studied in some depth: this book concentrates on the forms of interference — expurgation, Act division, interpolation — which can usefully be examined across the whole canon, and which resulted in ‘late reshaping’. These influences were at work between May 1606 and November 1623, and — unlike the political censorship, which would have come into effect immediately the plays were submitted for a licence — affected the texts years after they were first written. There is a major central study of Measure for Measure, which underwent posthumous interpolation: the book makes a strong claim for this being at the hands of Thomas Middleton.
The Structure of Performance Act-Intervals in the London Theatres, 1576–1642
In analysing Shakespeare's plays, modern criticism asserts that we read between the lines but not between the acts, to look into the importance of silences and pauses for the dialogues but not the longer silences that separate five acts, and to investigate the underlying principles when a character does not speak nor act while disregarding the pauses between intervals, when all the characters stop acting, and when the play ends. This is because i…
Shakespeare reshaped, 1606-1623
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The Structure of Performance Act-Intervals in the London Theatres, 1576–1642
In analysing Shakespeare's plays, modern criticism asserts that we read between the lines but not between the acts, to look into the importance of silences and pauses for the dialogues but not the longer silences that separate five acts, and to investigate the underlying principles when a character does not speak nor act while disregarding the pauses between intervals, when all the characters stop acting, and when the play ends. This is because i…
Shakespeare reshaped, 1606-1623