Research Catalog

Title

Shakespeare's speech-headings : speaking the speech in Shakespeare's plays : the papers of the Seminar in Textual Studies, Shakespeare Association of America, March 29, 1986, Montreal / edited by George Walton Williams.

Author

Seminar in Textual Studies (1986 : Montréal, Québec)

Publication

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

• Williams, George Walton, 1922-
• Shakespeare Association of America.

Description

xxiv, 213 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• This volume contains the papers presented at the Textual Seminar of the Shakespeare Association of America, held in Montreal in 1986. The topic of the seminar was "Speech-Headings: The Bibliographer, the Editor, and the Critic." The papers concentrate on the speech prefixes in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, with particular attention to All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, the second and third parts of Henry VI, and Romeo and Juliet.
• They also investigate plays from the Shakespeare Apocrypha and plays by later dramatists. They examine the evidence provided by these little designators as it applies to the nature of the text, the performance, the acting companies, and the audience.
• The eight scholars whose contributions to the seminar are printed here come from England, Canada, and the United States. Experienced in bibliographical criticism and in editorial procedures and having published over the years important material on the assigned topic or on related topics, they brought to the seminar a unique depth of awareness and insight.

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism, Textual > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

"A Suggestion Regarding Shakespeare's Manuscripts" / R. B. McKerrow -- McKerrow's "Suggestion" and W. W. Greg / Paul Werstine -- McKerrow's Thesis Re-Examined / Sidney Thomas -- Perspective on Provenance: The Context of Varying Speech-heads / William B. Long -- Who is Hubert? Speech-headings in King John, Act II / A. R. Braunmuller -- Today we have Parting of Names: Editorial Speech-(Be)Headings in Coriolanus / Thomas Clayton -- "All things is hansome now": Murderers Nominated by Numbers in 2 Henry VI and Richard III / Steven Urkowitz -- Speech Prefixes, Compositors and Copy in Plays from the Shakespeare Apocrypha / Richard Proudfoot -- What's the Bastard's Name? / Randall McLeod.

ISBN

• 0874136377
• 040462295X

LCCN

87045811

OCLC

• 23731985
• ocm23731985

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries