Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus
By Margreta de Grazia (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) This study challenges traditional treatments of Shakespeare through a study of their textual imperatives in the late eighteenth century. The examination of earlier treatments demonstrates that concepts now basic to Shakespeare were once largely irrelevant. Only with Edmond Malone's 1790 Shakespeare edition do such criteria as authenticity, historical … Continued