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A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text
"A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text" introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare's plays and poems, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole.
The first single-volume book to provide an accessible and authoritative introduction to Shakespearean bibliographic studiesIncludes a helpful introduction, notes on Shakespeare's texts, and a useful bibliographyContributors represent both leading and emerging scholars in the fieldRepresents an unparalleled resource for both students and faculty
The first single-volume book to provide an accessible and authoritative introduction to Shakespearean bibliographic studiesIncludes a helpful introduction, notes on Shakespeare's texts, and a useful bibliographyContributors represent both leading and emerging scholars in the fieldRepresents an unparalleled resource for both students and faculty
280 pages, Paperback
First published June 11, 2007
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Andrew Murphy
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Prof Andrew Murphy attended Trinity College Dublin as an undergraduate and went on to study for his MA and PhD at Brandeis University in Boston in the US. He was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire before joining the School of English at St Andrews in 1998. He has published monographs on the Irish context of early modern English Literature; on the history of Shakespeare editing and publishing; and on nineteenth-century working class readers of Shakespeare. He has also published an introductory study of the poetry of Seamus Heaney. Edited collections include The Renaissance Text: Theory, Editing, Textuality; Shakespeare and Scotland; and A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text. Currently he is working on a study of literacy and cultural nationalism in Ireland in the period 1790 to 1930, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.
There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Prof Andrew Murphy attended Trinity College Dublin as an undergraduate and went on to study for his MA and PhD at Brandeis University in Boston in the US. He was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire before joining the School of English at St Andrews in 1998. He has published monographs on the Irish context of early modern English Literature; on the history of Shakespeare editing and publishing; and on nineteenth-century working class readers of Shakespeare. He has also published an introductory study of the poetry of Seamus Heaney. Edited collections include The Renaissance Text: Theory, Editing, Textuality; Shakespeare and Scotland; and A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text. Currently he is working on a study of literacy and cultural nationalism in Ireland in the period 1790 to 1930, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.
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