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Shakespeare Variorum Handbook: A Manual of Editorial Practice
The second edition of the Shakespeare Variorum Handbook: A Manual of Editorial Practice was prepared by Richard Knowles for the Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare of the Modern Language Association of America.
Copyright 2003 by the Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare of the Modern Language Association of America. You may print, reproduce, and use the information in these files for noncommercial, personal, or educational purposes only, provided that you (i) do not modify such information and (ii) acknowledge that this is the work of the author, Richard Knowles. Permission is hereby given to link to this Web page from any Web site but not to post it on another site without express written consent of the MLA (permissions@mla.org).
Comments or questions regarding the editorial content of the Variorum Handbook may be directed to Richard Knowles (rknowles@facstaff.wisc.edu).
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Contents- Preface and Acknowledgments vi
- I. Introduction: The Scope and Purpose of the New Variorum Shakespeare 1
- II. The Treatment of the Text 6
- The choice of copy-text 6
- The general nature of the Variorum text 6
- Substantive emendation 6
- Dramatis personae list 8
- Bibliographical information 9
- Emendation of accidentals 9
- Lineation 12
- III. Act-and-Scene Division and Numbering 14
- IV. Line-Numbering 22
- Line-numbering procedures for TLN 22
- Riverside act-scene-line numbers 25
- V. A Procedure for Typing the Text 26
- VI. Textual Notes 28
- Mechanics 28
- Emendations of the copy-text 33
- Emendations recorded in the textual notes 33
- Emendations recorded in the appendix 34
- Emendations not recorded 34
- Historical collation 35
- General principles 35
- Substantive variants 37
- Semi-substantive variants 37
- Variants of accidentals 40
- Variant lineation 42
- Variant stage directions 45
- Variant speech prefixes 46
- Variant act and scene headings 47
- Variant place headings 47
- Conjectures 48
- General principles of writing (and re-writing) textual notes 49
- Lists of editions collated 51
- VII. Collating Editions: Procedures 52
- Preliminaries: choosing and ordering the editions 52
- Mechanics: a working method for historical collation of texts 53
- VIII. Notes on Editions of Shakespeare 58
- IX. Commentary Notes 106
- Scope and contents 106
- Quotation and citation 107
- Definitions 107
- Proverbs 107
- Biblical parallels 107
- Shakespeare 107
- Style of the notes 107
- Writing Variorum commentary 108
- Working space 108
- Preliminaries 108
- Note-taking 109
- Selection 110
- Consistency of form 111
- Cross-references 112
- Citation of dictionaries 113
- X. The Appendices 115
- Emendations of Accidentals 115
- Conjectural emendations 115
- Text 116
- Date of composition 116
- Sources 116
- Criticism 118
- Style 119
- Topicality 119
- Staging and stage history 120
- Performances 120
- Special problems of staging 121
- The text of the play on the stage 121
- Costume, scenery 122
- Doubling of parts 122
- Music 122
- Bibliography 122
- Index 123
- XI. Editorial Policy and Style 124
- Permissions 124
- Quotations 124
- Citation of sources 127
- Cross-references 129
- Act, scene, and line reference 129
- Use of Abbreviations 130
- Spelling 130
- Capitalization and italics 130
- Spacing 131
- Numbers 131
- Dates 131
- Submitting the manuscript 132
- XII. Abbreviations and Sigla 133
- Shakespeare's plays and poems 133
- Journals, series, and reference books 135
- Scholarly and editorial terms 136
- Editions of Shakespeare 142
- XIII. Bibliographies 148
- The contents of the entries 148
- The style of the entries 151
- Procedures 155
- XIV. The Role of Computers 157
- Practical uses of personal computers 157
- Internet research resources 159
- Anticipating electronic publication 164
- XV. Appendices: Supplementary Finding-Lists 166
- 1. Commentators and Conjectors 166
- Persons 166
- Manuscript annotations 172
- 2. The Stage Historian at the British Library and the Folger 175
- 3. Theatrical Records at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust 178
- 4. Theater Editions 182
- 5. Notes on Shakespeare in the Gentleman's Magazine 184
- 6. Notes on Shakespeare in the St. James Chronicle 190
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