Shakespeare's First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives by Bauer, Matthias

Shakespeare's First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives

This wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in...
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Author: Matthias Bauer
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Shakespeare's First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives by Bauer, Matthias

Shakespeare's First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives

BD$275.41

Shakespeare's First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives

BD$275.41
Author: Matthias Bauer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
This wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in 1623, 7 years after Shakespeare's death, and on how the now iconic book has been continually reimagined after its initial publication to the present day.

In honour of its original publication, Shakespeare's First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives brings together a remarkable set of ground-breaking essays by an international group of scholars. From the beginning, the publication that came to be called the 'First Folio' was defined by the tension between the book as text and the book as a material object. In this volume, the individual contributions move between these two meaningsin that they considerprecursors to the First Folio in the form of reader-assembled volumes; the poetic identity of Shakespeare; and how misfortunes and successes in the early modern printing house shaped Shakespeare's text.

Chapters examine the unpredictable and often surprising subsequent histories of the book that has even been given a sacred status and become the basis of Shakespeare's unique position in the history of literature. They consider: the afterlife of the text, in relation to the reception of Shakespeare's First Folio in Spain; its presence in and influence on James Joyce's Ulysses; the role that Meisei University of Japan's Shakespeare Collection has played in the education and research of the institution; and what the collection of 82 copies at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, tells us about the ongoing role of these books within the study of Shakespeare and the early modern period.

Author: Matthias Bauer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 09/05/2024
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781350436367

About the Author

Matthias Bauer is Professor of English Philology at the University of Tübingen, Germany and specializes in early modern literature, with a particular focus on Shakespeare and Metaphysical Poetry. With Angelika Zirker he co-chairs a project, funded by the German National Research Foundation, on 'Co-Creativity in Early Modern English Literature.'

Angelika Zirker is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Her publications include William Shakespeare and John Donne: Stages of the Soul in Early Modern English Poetry (2019), and she is the co-editor, with Matthias Bauer, of Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate.

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