Shakespeare and Textual Failure
New Histories, Methods and Practices
Shakespeare and Textual Failure
New Histories, Methods and Practices
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Description
Histories of the Shakespearean text have tended to focus on success stories so as to craft narratives of achievement, completion, discovery and restoration from an admittedly messy, incomplete textual past. Investigating how textual phenomena around and adjacent to Shakespeare come to be named failures, this book shows that these so-called failures offer new frameworks for recuperating, reimagining and treating them as sites of new knowledge about textual making, history and historiography.
Shakespeare and Textual Failure collects stories of textual failure related to the Shakespearean text and other early modern texts from the sixteenth century through the present. The essays take up diverse instances of textual failure, both granular (e.g., misprints and typos) and systemic (e.g., institutional biases).
The eighteen contributed chapters together expand our understanding of how cases of actual and supposed failure - failure of textual transmission, of text technologies, of interpretation, of editorial decision-making, of preservation, of remediation, of funding, of human health, of the environment, of performance, of institutions - have shaped the textual record around Shakespeare and other early modern texts as well as the range of possible approaches to them. They show that revisiting textual phenomena labeled as 'failures' either in their own moment or subsequently can generate new methods of assessing the textual past and result in more nuanced and inclusive - as well as less teleological, or triumphalist - material, cultural and political histories of early modern texts.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Claire M. L. Bourne (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
§1 ERROR
1. Uncorrected: Stop-Press Corrections and the Shakespeare First Folio, Lara Hansen-Morse (University of Nevada, USA)
2. Trans* Errat[ics]; or The Trans* Fugivity of Faults Escaped, Kadin Henningsen (University of Illinois, USA)
§2 INCOMPLETION
3. Revisiting Shakespeare's Imagery: Caroline Spurgeon's Unfinished Trilogy, Devani Singh (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
4. The Defaulter: Ruth Raworth, Textual Failure, and the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio, Molly Yarn (Independent Scholar)
5. Scrappy Knowledge: Shakespeare and Printed Waste, Tamara Atkin (The Queen's College, University of Oxford, UK)
§3 GAPS
6. Voice Breaks and Page Breaks in Astrophil and Stella, Thomas Ward (United States Naval Academy)
7. How to Fail at Printing, Helen Smith (University of York, UK)
§4 ILLEGIBILITY
8. Textual Triage: Taming of the Shrew and Titus Andronicus in Performance, Sawyer Kemp (Queens College, CUNY, USA)
9. 'Marked but not canceled': Censorship, Textual Failure, and Editing Early Modern Plays, Andrew Fleck (University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, USA)
10. In Witness & Remembrance: Editing Failed Court Documents & the Book Trade Probate Archive, Breanne Weber (James Madison University, USA)
§5 ABSENCE
11. Eldred Hubbard's Spectral Shakespeares, Audrey Gradzewicz (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
12. Cutting Scenes, Pricking Beatrice, Denise Walen (Vassar College, USA)
13. On Off Book, Peter Kirwan and Susan Anderson (Mary Baldwin University, USA)
§6 CONFUSION
14. On Making Mistakes: Textual Failure, Distributed Intention, Scholarly Work, Patrick Durdel (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
15. Making the Headlines: The Failure of Shakespearean Commonplaces in the Information Age, Philip Gilreath (Tulane University, USA)
§7 REFUSAL
16. Editing Adjacent Text: Against the Correction of Mise-en-Page, Janelle Jenstad (University of Victoria, Canada)
17. Is a Non-Read Book a Failed Book? Alice Leonard (Coventry University, UK) & Adam Smyth (Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK)
§8 INDECISION
18. Potential Forms, Dianne Mitchell (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
19. Lost in Transliteration: Edward II, Jeffrey Masten (Northwestern University, USA)
CODA
Brandi K. Adams (Arizona State University, USA) & Kim F. Hall (Barnard College, USA)
Index
Product details
| Published | Mar 04 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781350568334 |
| Imprint | The Arden Shakespeare |
| Illustrations | 40 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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