One of the great highlights of the difficult last few years was editing Shakespeare / Text, a collection of twenty agenda-setting essays about the study and use of the Shakespearean text over time and in our time. The collection was published in 2021 by Bloomsbury under The Arden Shakespeare imprint. It is part of a new series called Arden Shakespeare Intersections, general edited by Sonia Massai, Farah Karim-Cooper, Lucy Munro, and Gordon McMullan.
Written by 21 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary—such as book/theater, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital and original/copy—that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze, teach, perform, and edit Shakespeare today.
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