521 Class 1

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Plan

Discussion: What is remediation and why does it matter? Why playbooks?

Lecture: A quick overview of work, text, and other key concepts

Hands on: Working with rare books from Special Collections

Hands on: Folding and quiring exercise

Planning ahead: Brief remarks on the “Finding Early Modern Plays” activity.

Keywords

Work
Text
Publication
Copy
Edition
Bibliographical codes
Linguistic codes
Witness
Document
Folio
Quarto
Octavo
Gathering
Signature
Page
Leaf
Recto
Verso

Further Reading

Ash, C. K., José A. Pérez Díez, and Emma Smith, eds. Reanimating Playbooks: Editing for Performance, Performance for Editing. Special issue of Shakespeare Bulletin 34.1 (2016).

Hayles, N. Katherine. “Translating Media: Why We Should Rethink Textuality.” The Yale Journal of Criticism 16.2 (2003): 263-290. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/yale.2003.0018.

Lerer, Seth, and Joseph A. Dane. “Introduction: What is a Text?” Huntington Library Quarterly 58.1 (1996): 1-10. DOI: 10.2307/3817894.

Pratt, Aaron T. “Printed Playbooks, Performance, and the 1580s Lag.” Shakespeare Studies 45 (2017): 51-59.

Suarez, Michael F., and H. R. Woudhuysen. The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. Available via Oxford Reference. Look up our keywords in this volume.

Walsh, Marcus. “Theories of Text, Editorial Theory, and Textual Criticism.” The Oxford Companion to the Book. Ed. Michael F. Suarez and H. R. Woudhuysen. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. Chap. 18.