Seminar schedule 2015-16
Week 1: Bringing criticism into play: principles and methods for creating a reading list of secondary
material (GM)
Week 2: The shape of the field (GM)
Week 3: Critical survey of a text: Tempest (SL)
Week 4: Critical survey of a topic: genre (SL)
Week 5: Student presentations of short surveys (GM)
Week 6: READING WEEK
Week 7: Secretary hand & manuscripts (SM)
Week 8: From manuscript to Print (SM / LM)
Week 9: Book history & sociology of the text (SM & LM)
Week 10: From early printed text to edition (SM & LM)
Week 11: Editing workshop (LM)
Week 12: Essay consultations
Selected Bibliography
Baker, David J. and Willy Maley (eds.), British Identities and English Renaissance Literature
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Bergeron, David M., Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570-1640 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)
Blayney, Peter, „The Publication of Playbooks‟, in A New History of Early English Drama, ed. by J. D.
Cox and D. S.Kastan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), 383-422
Bowers, Fredson, „Multiple Authority: New Problems and Concepts of Copy-Text,‟ The Library 27
(1972), 81-115
Braunmuller, A. R., „Shakespeare Various‟, in In Arden: Editing Shakespeare, ed. by Ann Thompson
and Gordon McMullan (London: Thomson Learning, 2003), 3-16
Chedgzoy, K., Shakespeare,
Feminism and Gender (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)
De Grazia, Margreta, and Peter Stallybrass, „The Materiality of the Shakespearean Text‟, in
Shakespeare Quarterly 44 (1993), 255-83
De Grazia, Margreta, Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790
Apparatus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)
Eisenstein, Elisabeth, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1979)
Erne, Lukas, Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Gaskell, Philip, From Writer to Reader: Studies in Editorial Method (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1978)
Giddens, Eugene, How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text (Cambridge: CUP, 2011)
Gossett, Suzanne, Thomas Middleton in Context (Cambridge: CUP, 2011)
Greetham, David C., Textual Scholarship: An Introduction (New York and London: Garland, 1994)
Greg, W. W., „The Rationale of Copy-Text‟, in Studies in Bibliography 3 (1950-1)
Hadfield, Andrew, Literature, Politics, and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Hinman, Charlton, The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare, 2 vols (1963)
Ioppolo, Grace, Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and
Heywood (London and New York: Routledge, 2006)
Johns, Adrian, The Nature of the Book (London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)
Jowett, John, „After Oxford: Recent Developments in Textual Studies‟, in The Shakespearean
International Yearbook, ed. by W. R. Elton and J. M. Mucciolo (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999), 65-84
Kastan, David Scott, „The Mechanics of Culture: Editing Shakespeare Today‟, in Shakespeare Studies,
24 (1996), 30-7
Long, William, „“Precious Few”: English Manuscript Playbooks‟, in David Scott Kastan (ed.), A
Companion to Shakespeare (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), 414-43
Loomba, A. and M. Orkin (eds.), Post-Colonial Shakespeares (London and New York: Routledge,
1998)
Loomba, A., Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Marcus, Leah, Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton (London and New York:
Routledge, 1996)
Massai, Sonia, „Scholarly Editing and the Shift from Print to Electronic Cultures‟, in Textual
Performances, ed. By Lukas Erne and Margaret Jane Kidnie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2004)
Massai, Sonia, Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007), 252-77
Massai, Sonia, „Working with the Text: Differential Readings‟, in Andrew Murphy (ed.), A Blackwell
Companion to Shakespeare and the Text (Blackwell: Oxford,
McGann, Jerome J., A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism (Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, 1983), 51-5
McGann, Jerome J., „The Rationale of Hypertext‟, in K. Sutherland, (ed.), Electronic Text:
Investigations in Method and Theory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), 20-45
McMullan, Gordon, „“Our Whole Life is Like a Play”: Collaboration and the Problem of Editing‟, in
Textus: English Studies in Italy (Genova: Tilgher, 1996), 437-60
Moore, J. K., Primary Materials Relating to Copy and Print in English Books of the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1992)
Murphy, Andrew, Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Murphy, Andrew (ed.), A Blackwell Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2007)
Orgel, Stephen, „The Authentic Shakespeare‟, in The Authentic Shakespeare and Other Problems of
the Early Modern Stage (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), 231-56
Orgel, Stephen, „What is an Editor?‟, in The Authentic Shakespeare and Other Problems of the Early
Modern Stage (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), 15-20
Peters, Julie Stone, Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Peformance in Europe (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2000)
Pollard, A. W., Shakespeare Folios and Quartos (London: Methuen, 1909)
Proudfoot, G. Richard, „New Conservatism and the Theatrical Text: Editing Shakespeare for the third
Millenium‟, in The Shakespearean International Yearbook, ed. by W. R. Elton and J. M. Mucciolo
(Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999), 128-42
Proudfoot, G. Richard, Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Canon (London: Thomson, 2001)
Quayson, Ato, Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2000)
Stern, Tiffany, Making Shakespeare: From Stage to Page (London: Routledge, 2004)
Sutherland, Kathryn, Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1997)
Taylor, Gary and Michael Warren (eds.), The Division of the Kingdoms (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1983)
Taylor, Gary and John Lavagnino, Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture (Oxford:
Oxford UP, 2007)
Walsh, Marcus, Shakespeare, Milton and Eighteenth Century Literary Editing: The Beginnings of
Interpretative Scholarship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Wells, Stanley, Re-Editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984)
Wells, Stanley, and Gary Taylor, with John Jowett and William Montgomery, William Shakespeare: A
Textual Companion (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1987)
Werstine, Paul, „Editing after the End of Editing‟, in Shakespeare Studies 24 (1996), 47-54
Wilson, F. P., Shakespeare and the New Bibliography, rev. by Helen Gardner (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1970)
Wilson, R. and R. Dutton (eds.), New Historicism and Renaissance Drama (London and New York:
Longman,1992)
Woudhuysen, Henry R., „Early Play Texts: Forms and Formes‟, in In Arden: Editing Shakespeare, ed.
by Ann Thompson and Gordon McMullan (London: Thomson Learning, 2003), 48-61
Woudhuysen, Henry R., Sir Philip Sidney and the circulation of manuscripts, 1558-1640 (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1996)