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Modelarea Canonului Shakespeareian
Modelarea Canonului Shakespeareian
Modelarea Canonului Shakespeareian
The main difference betwen the two Shakespearian formats (quarto and folio) it's size. The Quarto
format is equivalent of a modern paper (A4) and it was the first edtition printed with Shakespeare’s
plays in early 1600, but the Shakespeare collections was printed also in a big book, a Folio, in 1623. The
book wich now is called "The First Folio".
The problem here is that the modern editions of Shakespeare take the list of the plays from the Folio but
not always the text, because almost half of the plays have been printed before the folio and sometimes
what folio's printed was a text to replace the earlier one, but very frequent the folio was mainly a reprint
and that makes a hard job for the editors because they have to take serious account of publication
before Folio.
3.Why was Edward III included in the Shakespeare canon only in 1760?
Even if the play was printed in 1596, like I said, it was anonymously. So in 1760 it was included in the
Folio as a Shakespearian Canon by Edward Capell, who conclude the play as one write by Shakespeare.
At the time, that colcusion was not accepted by everyone, not even today the idea is not fully accepted,
and it s contested by a numerous critics. The coclusion of Edward III, was in 2009 by Brian Vickers who
assigned to Shakespare only 40% of the text, the rest of it going to Thomas Kyd, who was named the
primary author of the play. Even if we still don t know for sure how much each and every one of them
has contriubute on the text, the play is recognized and assigned to William Shakespeare.