Textual Shakespeare : writing and the word

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Textual Shakespeare : writing and the word

Graham Holderness

University of Hertfordshire Press, c2003

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Includes bibliographical references

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: hbk ISBN 9781902806204

内容説明

This text is about Shakespeare, but also about writing and creativity, which has far-reaching implications for the reading, criticism and teaching of classic literature. Reviewing debates in textual theory and practice, Graham Holderness concludes that "Shakespeare" is not a writer but a collection of documents. According to modern literary studies all texts are copies, always already changed, and there are no "originals". Editors are translators; and scholars and critics rewrite the writing they study. Shakespeare is then situated within this theoretical context, via a brief history of the plays' textual reproduction. Holderness shows that modern Shakespeare editions are radical rewritings, and that contemporary textual theory opens the way to much more inventive textual activities of reconstruction and translation. This is demonstrated and explored in a series of chapters on and around individual Shakespeare plays. Holderness stresses throughout the creativity involved not only in the act of writing but in the many processes of rewriting that make up any historical culture. By way of illustration "Textual Shakespeare" includes a number of short "creative" works, mostly verse translations of Latin and Old English poems. The book draws on a wide range of sources, from classical poetry to deconstructionist theory, from Anglo-Saxon verse to modern bibliographical scholarship.

目次

Preface and Acknowledgements PART ONE: Chapter One: Text Chapter Two: Shakespeare Chapter Three: Matter Chapter Four: Confluence PART TWO: Chapter Five: Texts and Contexts - King Lear Chapter Six: Notes and Queries - Macbeth Chapter Seven: Visions and Revisions - Hamlet Chapter Eight: Writing and Fighting - Henry V Conclusion: Writing in the Dust. Postscript
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: pbk ISBN 9781902806211

内容説明

"Textual Shakespeare" reassesses the Bard as a writer in the light of the late-20th century "revolution" in bibliography and textual studies. Reviewing debates in textual theory and practice, Holderness concludes that "Shakespeare" is not a writer but a collection of documents, none of which can with any certainty be linked to whatever it was the author wanted to say. According to modern literary studies all texts are copies, always already changed, and there are no "originals". Editors are translators; and scholars and critics rewrite the writing they study. Holderness goes beyond both traditional and "materialist" bibliography to show that texts are both physical media, made and remade by a series of craftspeople; and rich repositories of changeable meaning. The book advocates a recovery of ancient concepts such as creativity and imagination, together with a recognition of the technical and essentially collaborative nature of all writing. Shakespeare is then situated within this theoretical context, via a brief history of the plays' textual reproduction. Here Holderness shows that modern Shakespeare editions are radical rewritings, and that contemporary textual theory opens the way to much more inventive textual activities of reconstruction and translation. A series of chapters on individual plays provides illustrative examples of such textual activities in practice. The two texts of "King Lear" are studied as discrepant reworking of a traditional narrative. The single text of Macbeth is compared to a text-that-never-was - the version seen by an eyewitness in 1611 - and the lost text reconstructed from that evidence. A chapter of Hamlet concentrates on 20th century rewritings of the plays, including Holderness' own novel "The Prince of Denmark" (2001). The two texts of "Henry V" are examined as evidence of a substantial gap between theatrical writing and theatrical practice in the theatre of Shakespeare's day. The book concludes that all Shakespeare scholarship, editing and criticism are devoted to a quest for something missing: not the lost manuscript (which even if recovered would not in any case answer all our questions), but rather the absence that writing always invokes. Where this insight takes us is the subject of a tantalising and suggestive conclusion. Holderness stresses throughout the creativity involved not only in the act of writing but in the many processes of rewriting that make up any historical culture. By way of illustration "Textual Shakespeare" includes a number of short "creative" works, mostly verse translations of Latin and Old English poems. The book thus attempts to build bridges between writing and criticism, creation and reproduction, "text" and "technology". Drawing on an wide range of sources, from classical poetry to deconstructionist theory, from Anglo-Saxon verse to modern bibliographical scholarship, this is a critical-creative book for the 21st century.

目次

Preface and Acknowledgements PART ONE: Chapter One: Text Chapter Two: Shakespeare Chapter Three: Matter Chapter Four: Confluence PART TWO: Chapter Five: Texts and Contexts - King Lear Chapter Six: Notes and Queries - Macbeth Chapter Seven: Visions and Revisions - Hamlet Chapter Eight: Writing and Fighting - Henry V Conclusion: Writing in the Dust. Postscript

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