书名：The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio / 莎士比亚《第一对开本》的制作
定价：288.0
ISBN：9781851245987
作者：Emma Smith
版次：1
出版时间：2023-04

内容提要：

书 名：The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio / 莎士比亚《第一对开本》的制作

作 者：Emma Smith

出 版：Bodleian Library ，2023

装 帧：精装，277页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：15.8*23.5 cm

 

 

莎士比亚《第一对开本》的制作—修订版与更新版一书，阐释了这部标志性出版物的重要意义。

 

《莎士比亚<第一对开本>的制作》首次全面介绍了莎士比亚戏剧最早结集出版的传记。1623年11月，这本书出现在伦敦出版商爱德华·布朗特的黑熊书店中。这部名为《威廉·莎士比亚喜剧、历史剧和悲剧集》（即后来的首版对开本）的著作，历经长时间筹备，终于在莎士比亚逝世七年后问世。这部近千页的合集收录了36部戏剧，其中一半此前从未出版过。然而，莎士比亚首版对开本的初次出版并未引起任何轰动——没有热切读者的排队等候，也没有登上畅销书榜首。

 

尽管如此，这一文学、文化和商业时刻的重要性怎么强调都不为过。艾玛·史密斯讲述了首版对开本的起源故事，将其置于詹姆士一世时期伦敦的社会和政治背景中，并融入了关于17世纪图书贸易的最新研究成果。这一新版书籍以丰富的彩色插图展示了出版物中的关键页面和对比作品，结合了2016年在巴特岛上的蒙特斯图尔特府邸发现的此前未知版本的首版对开本，以及这部里程碑式出版物诞生背后的人文、艺术、经济和技术故事——还有莎士比亚崇高声誉的诞生。

 

A revised and updated edition of Shakespeare’s First Folio that explains the significance of the iconic publication.

 

The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio offers the first comprehensive biography of the earliest collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays. In November 1623, the book arrived in the bookshop of the London publisher Edward Blount at the Black Bear. Long in the making, Master William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies—as the First Folio was then known—appeared seven years after Shakespeare’s death. Nearly one thousand pages in length, the collection comprised thirty-six plays, half of which had never been previously published. Yet no fanfare surrounded the initial publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio—no queue of eager readers, no launch to the top of the best-seller list.

 

Nevertheless, it is hard to overstate the importance of this literary, cultural, and commercial moment. Emma Smith tells the story of the First Folio’s origins, locating it within the social and political context of Jacobean London and bringing in the latest scholarship on the seventeenth-century book trade. Generously illustrated in color with key pages from the publication and comparative works, this new edition combines the 2016 discovery of a hitherto unknown edition of the First Folio at Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute with the human, artistic, economic and technical stories of the birth of this landmark publication—and the birth of Shakespeare’s towering reputation.