"A Certain Text": Close Readings and Textual Studies on Shakespeare and Others in Honor of Thomas ClaytonThis collection takes its title from 'Romeo and Juliet' (4.1.21.) when, meeting Paris in Friar Lawrence's cell, Juliet muses, What must be shall be, and the Friar completes her line with, That's a certain text. Where text means a received truth both Friar Lawrence and Clayton are interested skeptics. This essays gathered here reflect this attitude, questioning received ideas about the activities to which Clayton has devoted his professional life- literary editing and the close reading of literary works. |
Contents
| 7 | |
Introduction | 11 |
Some Early Reprints of Mucedorus | 18 |
The Dram of Eale | 29 |
Some Notes on the Endless Editing of Richard III | 50 |
Stage Directions and Stage Presences in The Merry Wives of Windsor Q1 | 65 |
The Physics of Hamlets Rogue and Peasant Slave Speech | 75 |
The Induction as Clue in The Taming of the Shrew | 94 |
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