{"title":"ON THE EDITING OF ELIZABETHAN TEXTS","authors":"L. Kirschbaum","doi":"10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264610","url":null,"abstract":"At the and of tho third of his Sandors locturos (1958 )> Professor Frodson Bowors writ os, in an agrooftbly humblo voini \"Tho union of tho critical judgnont with tho bibliographical rethod i3 tho hopo for tho futuro» Bibliography alono will carry one a long way toward good editing, but it is no magic carpet to tho Promised Land. And if undue expectation is arousod that it will solvo all problems, tho disappointment will bo tho keonor. It is truo that loss ham than usual nay bo causod to a text if tho bibliographical method is narrowly followed; but for the real principios of editing, for the discipline that places editing as alno s t a creativo art, bibliography is only ono of atriad that also includes language study but above all literary criticism shaping the judgment withjp certain linlts proscribed jfifià language...» Id tho history of Shakospeo.ro oditing ospocially in tho twentieth contury when a little bibliography has sonetinos becono a rather dangerous thing-I should prefer the tasto and judgment of a Kittrodgo (wrong as ho sonet ine s was).,. to tho unskilled and thoreforo unscientific operation of a scientific method as if it wore the whole answer to tho problon and automatically relieved an Oditor of tho necessity to uso his critical judgment in any way. Bibliography can only help to preparo a text for tho final operation. Bibliography is a good servant but a bad master\" (Textual and Litorarv Criticisn. Cambridge, 1959, pp. 115-16).","PeriodicalId":275331,"journal":{"name":"Opportunities for Research in Renaissance Drama","volume":"338 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127576832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INFORMAL MINUTES OF CONFERENCE 23","authors":"K. Rothwell","doi":"10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264608","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":275331,"journal":{"name":"Opportunities for Research in Renaissance Drama","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122623415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE MATERIALS FOR RESEARCH IN THE GUILDHALL LIBRARY OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON","authors":"W. E. Miller","doi":"10.1086/OPPORESERENADRAM.5.43264612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/OPPORESERENADRAM.5.43264612","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":275331,"journal":{"name":"Opportunities for Research in Renaissance Drama","volume":"386 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122845082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS AND ELIZABETHAN TEXTS","authors":"E. Fogel","doi":"10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264613","url":null,"abstract":"Librarians, archivists, linguists, and studonts of literature aro rapidly coning to realizo that oloctronic conputors, or, bottor, dataprocossing nachines, can help to solvo problems in fields ordinarily regarded as renoto fron the world of advanced technology. Already there is a forrddablo bibliography of books and articles discussing automation in the library, automatic soarch and indexing of document s, automatic linguistic analysis, and automatic translation. So far as I know, however, no papers havo boon published on the application of electronic aids to the solution of problems in Elizabethan scholarship. The chief purpose of the present essay is to stimulate wider discussion of the possible uses of comg putor-prepared concordances to and magnetic tape files of Elizabethan texts, I should like at the outset to acknowledge cy debt to ny oolleague Professor Stephen M. Parrish, who introduced ne to the mysteries of computers and who has answered my many queries with invariable kindness and lucidity,","PeriodicalId":275331,"journal":{"name":"Opportunities for Research in Renaissance Drama","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116062797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[EDITOR'S REMARKS]","authors":"Ann D. Thompson, Denise A. Schmidt","doi":"10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264607","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":275331,"journal":{"name":"Opportunities for Research in Renaissance Drama","volume":"380 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130121774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"STUDIES IN ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA SINCE 1900","authors":"Arthur C. L. Brown","doi":"10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264615","url":null,"abstract":"Towards the end of his article, \"Studies in the Elizabethan Stage Since 1900,\" in Shakespeare Survey f I (1948)» Allardyce Nicoli considered future lines of research in this field and remarked, \"the already existent inquiries into particular, as opposed to general, problems have been seen to have yielded matter of prime interest. We need more of these, conducted with the most rigorous selectivity . w The same principle applies, I believe, to the material to be considered in this paper. A survey of the work produced on Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (excluding Shakespeare for this purpose) over the last sixty years reveals fairly clearly a retreat from studie« with the wide sweep of F. E. Schelling1 s Drama 1558-l6¿2 or W. Creizenach's JJig Ehelish Drama ¿n j£§ Ago Shakespeare: their place has bean taken, in general, by more detailed examinations of the work of individual authors, of individual plays, of distinctive dramatic forms, and by special izad studies of theatres, companies, and acting technique. Bibliographical and textual studies have placed a salutary check on fanciful interpretation and emendation, and have shown how dangerously little is still known about the essential basis of all our work-the author1 s text and its transmission» The half-century has, in short, tended to be a period of stock-taking, old ideas being subjected to a more critical scrutiny in the light of, for example, more detailed knowledge arising from now documentary evidence, and new ideas tending to be based more firmly on evidence as opposed to conjecture and, as a result, tending to be more limited in scope. It is a stock-taking which no one will regret; it is by no moans yet approaching its end,","PeriodicalId":275331,"journal":{"name":"Opportunities for Research in Renaissance Drama","volume":"210 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114331451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CURRENT PROJECTS: A THIRD SUPPLEMENT","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264614","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":275331,"journal":{"name":"Opportunities for Research in Renaissance Drama","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114782473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INFORMAL MINUTES OF CONFERENCE 20","authors":"K. Rothwell","doi":"10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264611","url":null,"abstract":"Commenting on Mr. Miller's paper, Professor Bald observed that there must have been a shifting around of records in London. He recollected having inspected certain documents in St. Paul's which now seem to ha^e turned up in the Guildhall. Professor Bald noted that to him among the most exciting of Guildhall holdings wore the topographical materials. Mr. Miller replied that he had no categorical answer to explain these apparent shifts but that bombings during World War II, dampness in older buildings, and desirable storage facilities at the Guildhall all might account for the transfer of records. Discussion of Mr. Miller's paper closed with a comment by one member of the group that he had found valuable records of musicians and minstrels living in the area of St. Giles, Cripplegate, who were active in theatrical productions. Some of the material, he noted, has already been used by Chambers.","PeriodicalId":275331,"journal":{"name":"Opportunities for Research in Renaissance Drama","volume":"21 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134259964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"STROLLING PLAYERS IN KENT: OPPORTUNITIES IN PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES","authors":"Gilos E. Dawson","doi":"10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/opporeserenadram.5.43264609","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":275331,"journal":{"name":"Opportunities for Research in Renaissance Drama","volume":"185 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116143795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE REPORT OF CONFERENCE 5 OF THE SEVENTY-THIRD MEETING OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (NEW YORK, 1958)","authors":"S. Schoenbaum","doi":"10.1086/OPPORESERENADRAM.4.43264597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/OPPORESERENADRAM.4.43264597","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":275331,"journal":{"name":"Opportunities for Research in Renaissance Drama","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1958-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133682088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}