Shakespeare, Malone and the Problems of Chronology

Download or read book Shakespeare, Malone and the Problems of Chronology written by Tiffany Stern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.