Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha: Negotiating the Boundaries of the Dramatic Canon
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1332691
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/CBO9781316156216
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- ISBN
- 9781107479982
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha is the first book-length (272 pp.) study in English to show how the Shakespeare canon came to have the shape it does. Drawing on archival work and exploring neglected editions, it demonstrates the editorial choices and marketplace biases that formed the principles of inclusion and exclusion. Combining approaches from textual studies, theatre history, attribution studies and canon theory, the book offers a multi-faceted theorisation of the idea of ‘apocrypha’, and in doing so suggests that attention to a canon’s exclusions can reshape a field of study.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha contains eighteen pages of material lightly revised from a 2012 article, ‘The Shakespeare Apocrypha and Canonical Expansion in the Marketplace’, Philological Quarterly 91.2 (2012): 247-75, submitted to REF 2014. This material appears on pp. 18-36 of the monograph, making up a third of Chapter One. In its form in the monograph, it is part of a larger historical overview about the editorial history of the Shakespeare Apocrypha, developing the self-contained argument of the article into a fuller history of the idea of the Apocrypha as a canonical sense.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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