Other Publications: Shakespeare's First Texts
Designed for both the general reader and those working in theatre, Shakespeare’s First Texts is about possibility and imagination. It shows the differences between the way the way the texts of Shakespeare were first presented to the world, and the highly changed way they appear now. The book will never suggest ‘old texts good therefore modern texts bad’, but show how the two sets of texts often offer different choices to the reader, choices which will have an enormous impact on the characters and the situations in which they find themselves.
- The first five chapters deal with the background to the material.
- The next fourteen chapters (mercifully short, each no longer than ten pages at most) gently take you through, step by step, the various differences between the first printings and the modern texts, offering a series of guidelines as to what might be of interest and use.
- The last chapter suggests which of the first printings, modern versions of them, and purely ‘modern’ texts, readers may wish to explore.
- The five Appendices offer more details of items referred to in the main body of the text.
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(Note, only a very limited number of copies of the second printing are still available)
