Canonising the Shakespeare apocrypha: Shakespeare, Middleton and co-existent canons
The Shakespeare Apocrypha has persisted as a category for plays of dubious authorship since 1908. Despite recent calls for this group to be dissolved, it persists as the “other” of the Shakespeare canon. The definition of the plays as a collectively excluded canon leads to their relative obscurity i...
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| description | The Shakespeare Apocrypha has persisted as a category for plays of dubious authorship since 1908. Despite recent calls for this group to be dissolved, it persists as the “other” of the Shakespeare canon. The definition of the plays as a collectively excluded canon leads to their relative obscurity in print and on stage. Yet recent calls for the adoption of different kinds of dramatic canon present a means of reintegrating canon and apocrypha. The new Middleton Collected Works offers a model for “co-existent canons” which share plays and disperse the authority of fixed authorial canons, allowing the plays of the Shakespeare Apocrypha to be read and seen in new, productive contexts. |
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| spelling | nottingham-375122020-05-04T16:33:27Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37512/ Canonising the Shakespeare apocrypha: Shakespeare, Middleton and co-existent canons Kirwan, Peter The Shakespeare Apocrypha has persisted as a category for plays of dubious authorship since 1908. Despite recent calls for this group to be dissolved, it persists as the “other” of the Shakespeare canon. The definition of the plays as a collectively excluded canon leads to their relative obscurity in print and on stage. Yet recent calls for the adoption of different kinds of dramatic canon present a means of reintegrating canon and apocrypha. The new Middleton Collected Works offers a model for “co-existent canons” which share plays and disperse the authority of fixed authorial canons, allowing the plays of the Shakespeare Apocrypha to be read and seen in new, productive contexts. Blackwell Publishing 2012-08-01 Article PeerReviewed Kirwan, Peter (2012) Canonising the Shakespeare apocrypha: Shakespeare, Middleton and co-existent canons. Literature Compass, 9 (8). pp. 538-548. ISSN 1741-4113 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00898.x/abstract doi 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00898.x doi 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00898.x |
| spellingShingle | Kirwan, Peter Canonising the Shakespeare apocrypha: Shakespeare, Middleton and co-existent canons |
| title | Canonising the Shakespeare apocrypha: Shakespeare, Middleton and co-existent canons |
| title_full | Canonising the Shakespeare apocrypha: Shakespeare, Middleton and co-existent canons |
| title_fullStr | Canonising the Shakespeare apocrypha: Shakespeare, Middleton and co-existent canons |
| title_full_unstemmed | Canonising the Shakespeare apocrypha: Shakespeare, Middleton and co-existent canons |
| title_short | Canonising the Shakespeare apocrypha: Shakespeare, Middleton and co-existent canons |
| title_sort | canonising the shakespeare apocrypha: shakespeare, middleton and co-existent canons |
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