Description
| Product ID: | 9781316518359 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Shakespeare's ‘Lady Editors' |
| Subtitle: | A New History of the Shakespearean Text |
| Authors: | Author: Molly G. Yarn |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare plays, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare studies & criticism, Gender studies: women, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From novelists and professors to suffragists and Irish revolutionaries, Shakespeare's women editors lived extraordinary lives and produced editions that, throughout England and America, were read and used by people of all ages. This compelling book draws on book history, literary studies and women's history alike to tell their remarkable stories. The basic history of the Shakespearean editorial tradition is familiar and well-established. For nearly three centuries, men – most of them white and financially privileged – ensconced themselves in private and hard-to-access libraries, hammering out ''their'' versions of Shakespeare''s text. They produced enormous, learnèd tomes: monuments to their author''s greatness and their own reputations. What if this is not the whole story? A bold, revisionist and alternative version of Shakespearean editorial history, this book recovers the lives and labours of almost seventy women editors. It challenges the received wisdom that, when it came to Shakespeare, the editorial profession was entirely male-dominated until the late twentieth century. In doing so, it demonstrates that taking these women''s work seriously can transform our understanding of the history of editing, of the nature of editing as an enterprise, and of how we read Shakespeare in history. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-12-09 |