Shakespeare Reshaped 1606-1623

by Gary Taylor, John Jowett

John Jowett and Gary Taylor explore the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were reshaped in his lifetime and up until the publication of the First Folio, and the kinds of outside interference to which they were subjected. Political censorship of individual plays has already been studied in some Shakespeare Reshaped concentrates on the forms of interference--expurgation, Act division, interpolation--that can usefully be examined across the whole canon, and that resulted in "late reshaping." These influences were at work between May 1606 and November 1623, and affected the texts years after they were first written. Included is a major central study of Measure for Measure , which underwent posthumous the book makes a strong claim for this being at the hands of Thomas Middleton.

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Gary Taylor is George Matthew Edgar Professor of English at Florida State University.

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