ISBN: df804e23148d5b5bf968d244e33c14e1

The First Folio of 1623 was prepared for print by two members of Shakespeare's acting troupe -- John Hemings and Henry Condell -- which included comic actor Will Kemp and the great traged… More...

The First Folio of 1623 was prepared for print by two members of Shakespeare's acting troupe -- John Hemings and Henry Condell -- which included comic actor Will Kemp and the great tragedian Richard Burbage. In a fascinating and detailed introduction, Freeman points out that because Shakespeare and his colleagues wrote from a rhetorical tradition -- a society where the emphasis was on the spoken word -- he wrote with an eye to how he wanted his plays performed, giving as much direction as possible to his actors. Freeman looks at what is known of the printing of that First Folio and analyzes the variations between the First Folio, later Folios, Quarto editions (where available) and modern editions of the plays. He examines the "corrections" made by editors over the centuries that have shaped the way we perceive Shakespeare today -- from the regularization of verse, to the changes from prose to verse (and vice versa) and the standardization of character prefixes. Copyright ? Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. European Literary Collections , AU,DE,ES,FR,GB,UK,IT,MX,US English Literature, Perlego<

ISBN: df804e23148d5b5bf968d244e33c14e1

Heritage Books European Literary Collections William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Ju… More...

Heritage Books European Literary Collections William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, The History of Troilus and Cressida, Othello, the Moor of Venice, King Lear, Macbeth, The Life of Timon of Athens, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, The Sonnets, A Lover's Complaint, The Rape of Lucrece, Venus and Adonis, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, or, What you will, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline, The Life and Death of King John, The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, The first part of King Henry the Fourth, The second part of King Henry the Fourth, The Life of King Henry V, The first part of King Henry the Sixth, The second part of King Henry the Sixth, The third part of King Henry the Sixth , AU,DE,ES,FR,GB,UK,IT,MX,US English Literature, Heritage Books<