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Many readers and students do not recognise the extent to which modern standard editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe and other Renaissance authors have been filtered through eighteenth-century and Victorian sensibilities. In Unediting the Renaissance Leah Marcus reveals the vast array of possibilities opened up by 'unediting' these texts. With carefully researched scholarship and lively, elegantly argued rhetoric, Marcus shows how much of the texts of early modern authors have altered and rigidified over time. She also demonstrates how modern interpretations and performances of their work can be injected with new energy by a recognition of the possibilities closed off by modern standard editions. A lively critique of current theoretical practices, Unediting the Renaissance is a provocative work which will initiate much debate about what makes a text 'definitive'.

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Unediting the Renaissance includes both good arguments and provocative hypotheses in its efforts to explore the materiality of early modern texts. <br>-Renaissance and Reformation <br> [Marcus] presents cogent and compelling discussions of individual works to support her arguments, and those discussions are often new and exciting. Within each chapter there is much to engage readers... even longtime students... will appreciate the strikingly original elements in her discussions... That Unediting the Renaissance provokes questions attests to its scope and its importance... it is [an] inspiring work for textual critics, largely because it can convey the excitement of textual research to a broader audience. <br>- Text <br>

Unediting the Renaissance includes both good arguments and provocative hypotheses in its efforts to explore the materiality of early modern texts. -Renaissance and Reformation [Marcus] presents cogent and compelling discussions of individual works to support her arguments, and those discussions are often new and exciting. Within each chapter there is much to engage readers... even longtime students... will appreciate the strikingly original elements in her discussions... That Unediting the Renaissance provokes questions attests to its scope and its importance... it is [an] inspiring work for textual critics, largely because it can convey the excitement of textual research to a broader audience. - Text

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Leah S.Marcus is Blumberg Centennial Professor in English at the University of Texas, Austin. Her previous books include Childhood and Cultural Despair, The Politics of Mirth and Puzzling Shakespeare.

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