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978-0-521-82121-6 - The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet Editor - by Lukas Erne
Table of Contents




Contents




List of illustrations page ix
Preface xi
List of abbreviations and conventions xii
Introduction 1
Textual provenance 5
   A century of ‘bad quartos’ 5
   Past thinking about Q1 Romeo and Juliet 7
   The early draft/revision theory 9
   Memorial reporters? 13
   Stage abridgement, not memorial reconstruction? 15
   Evidence of memorial agency 17
   Alternatives to the traditional narrative 18
   A version for the provinces? 20
   Theatrical abridgement 22
   Textual provenance: conclusion 24
Dramatic specificities 25
   Pace and action 25
   Stage directions 27
   The betrothal scene 29
   Characterisation 30
   Inconsistent time references 34
Publication and printing 35
   The first quarto in 1597 35
   The first quarto after 1597 41
Note on the text 45
List of characters 47
THE PLAY 49
Appendix A. Scene division 157
Appendix B. Casting and doubling 159
Appendix C. Bel-vedére (1600) 166
Appendix D. Q1 in eighteenth-century editions of Romeo and Juliet 168
Reading list 192



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