The Politics and Poetics of Editing Hamlet

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Negotiating Conflicting Aims in Scholarly Editing: The Problem of Editorial Intentions 1
3. Editorial Theory and Practice in English Studies in Germany 9
4. Teaching Editing - Learning Editing 18
5. Publishing Scholarly Editions of 19th and 20th Century Novels 33
6. General-Editing and Theory: Historical Version and Authorial Agency 42
7. Genetic Texts - Genetic Editions - Genetic Criticism or, Towards Discoursing the Genetics of Writing 59
8. Linguistic Problems of Editing 79
9. The Editing of Old English: To Emend or not to Emend 89
10. Where are the Bibliographers of Yesteryear? 96
11. Pragmatics and the Editing of Shakespeare 113
12. Pre-Editorial Criticism and the Space for Editing: Examples from Richard III and Your Five Gallants 127
13. The Politics and Poetics of Editing Hamlet 150
14. The Preservation of Textual Diversity in King Lear Bilingual Reading as Editing 164
15. Editing Shakespeare for School Students 180
16. The Importance of Editing Oscar 200
17. Annotation as Cultural Activity or, Re-constructing the Past for the Present 211
18. Dub Version: Editing Performance Poetry 224
19. Abstracts 238
20. Notes on Contributors 246