The Riverside Shakespeare

The Riverside Shakespeare is the title of a complete edition of the works by William Shakespeare published by Houghton Mifflin .

History of the edition

The first edition of Riverside Shakespeare was published by Richard Grant White in 1883 and 1901. A second edition appeared from 1974 in the form of individual scientific editions with an introduction, commentary and notes. The editorial management was with G. Blakemore Evans ; a revised edition, in which Evans was involved until 1997, has been published since 1996.

The text of the works was edited conservatively by Evans as one of the leading exponents of recent textual criticism , ie, if possible, avoiding unnecessary emendations or conjectures , such as those otherwise made by other editors.

Each individual work is provided with a carefully reconstructed text history and a brief text-critical commentary. In addition, mostly shorter factual and language explanations as well as interpretive essays by various employees are added. In addition, the Riverside Shakespeare provides more extensive appendix and image material, including various documents on Shakespeare's biography as well as on the reception and above all theater history of the dramas.

In the revised edition of 1996, the apocrypha Edward III and A Funeral Elegy are also printed and thus included in the canon of Shakespeare's works. However, given the current status of the discussion, this is not undisputed. The vast majority of Shakespeare researchers today suspect Shakespeare's possible co- authoring of the royal drama Edward III , but with a high degree of probability rule out Shakespeare's authorship in the nearly 600-line poem A Funeral Elegy .

The edition of Riverside Shakespeare published by Evans is of particular scientific importance, as this edition provides the textual basis for the first six volumes of the authoritative nine-volume Shakespeare Concordance by Marvin Spevack.

Web links

Reginald A. Foakes : The Riverside Shakespeare. 2d ed. (Review) . in: Renaissance Quarterly . December 22, 1998.
John Jowett: The Riverside Shakespeare by G. Blakemore Evans . In: The Modern Language Review. Vol. 94, no. 4 (Oct., 1999), pp. 1079-1080.
Richard Grant White: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Houghton Mifflin , New York 1901.

Individual evidence

↑ See Ulrich Suerbaum : Shakespeare's Dramas. UTB, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8252-1907-0 , p. 313. See also Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press, Second Edition Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-870873-5 , pp. 467 f.
↑ See Michael Dobson , Stanley Wells (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press, Second Edition Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-870873-5 , pp. 103 f. and p. 134 f. See also Ina Schabert (Ed.): Shakespeare-Handbuch. Time, man, work, posterity. 5th, revised and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-520-38605-2 , p. 192.
↑ See Marvin Spevack: A Complete and Systematic Concordance to the Works of Shakespeare. George Olms Verlag Hildesheim 1968-1980. See also the publisher's information [1] . See also Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press, Second Edition Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-870873-5 , p. 468.

[1] See Ulrich Suerbaum : Shakespeare's Dramas. UTB, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8252-1907-0 , p. 313. See also Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press, Second Edition Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-870873-5 , pp. 467 f.

[2] See Michael Dobson , Stanley Wells (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press, Second Edition Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-870873-5 , pp. 103 f. and p. 134 f. See also Ina Schabert (Ed.): Shakespeare-Handbuch. Time, man, work, posterity. 5th, revised and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-520-38605-2 , p. 192.

[3] See Marvin Spevack: A Complete and Systematic Concordance to the Works of Shakespeare. George Olms Verlag Hildesheim 1968-1980. See also the publisher's information [1] . See also Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press, Second Edition Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-870873-5 , p. 468.