Shakespeare, Malone and the Problems of Chronology

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Abstract

In 1778 Edmond Malone published his first contribution to Shakespeare scholarship, An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in which the Plays Attributed to Shakspeare were Written. He revised and republished it in 1790 and began a further revision of it which was printed posthumously in 1821. This Element will be on the three versions of Malone's Attempt and the way they created, shaped, focused, directed, and misdirected, our idea of the chronology and sequence of Shakespeare's plays. By showing Malone's impressive, fallible choices, adopted or adapted by later editors, it reveals how current Shakespeare editions are, in good and bad ways, Malonian at heart.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherCambridge University Press
Number of pages75
ISBN (Electronic)9781009224710
ISBN (Print)9781009224727
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 10 Mar 2023

Publication series

NameElements in Shakespeare and Text
PublisherCambridge University Press

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