The First Quarto of King Richard III Hardback
by William Shakespeare
Edited by Peter (De Montfort University, Leicester) Davison
Part of the The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos series
Hardback
Description
Shakespeare's Richard III presents difficult textual problems.
There are 2,000 verbal differences between the text of the first quarto (1597) and the version in the First Folio (1623).
Although the narrative of the two plays is virtually identical, each has lines which are not found in the other, parts of the play are arranged differently, and the quarto deploys fewer characters.
The text of the quarto is accompanied by a collation of variant readings and substantial textual notes.
In a lengthy introduction Peter Davison proposes that Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, used a memorially reconstructed text of Richard III during a touring performance of the play, and that text provided the manuscript for the 1597 quarto.
Using examples of touring practice of the past 400 years, Davison shows how the actors' involvement helped to produce the text we have.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages, 4 Tables, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:12/09/1996
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- ISBN:9780521418188
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages, 4 Tables, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:12/09/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521418188
