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The conversation is alive: recent government-sponsored editorial projects, like the AHRC-funded Richard Brome Online, university- funded conferences and symposia, like Reanimating Playbooks (The Shakespeare Institute) and The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 (Queen Mary University of London), and publ...

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Published in:Shakespeare bulletin 2016-04, Vol.34 (1), p.1
Main Authors: Ash, C K, Díez, José A Pérez, Smith, Emma
Format: Article
Language:English
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Thompson, Ann
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Summary:The conversation is alive: recent government-sponsored editorial projects, like the AHRC-funded Richard Brome Online, university- funded conferences and symposia, like Reanimating Playbooks (The Shakespeare Institute) and The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 (Queen Mary University of London), and publications, like In Arden: Editing Shakespeare (Arden, 2002) and Editing, Performance, Texts (Palgrave, 2014), variously interrogate the relationship between performance and editing. The essays included here offer concrete examples of ways to prompt the discussion toward practical, recognizable changes to editorial style and vision-not as a Spevackian "mee-tooism" (78), or paying lip service to the existence of performance. [...]this issue represents a reanimation of the ideals that Horace Howard Furness espoused in his New Variorum editions: democratization of information and sincere valuation of performers as scholars.1 In addition to articles recognizing the insights performance offers to editors, this special issue aims to connect that symbiotic circle by including articles suggesting how editorial treatments can anticipate the needs of performers.
ISSN:0748-2558
1931-1427