Beperkte Voorraad Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist – Lukas Erne

Now in a new edition, Lukas Erne’s groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare, apart from being a playwright who wrote theatrical texts for the stage, was also a literary dramatist who produced reading texts for the page. Examining the evidence from early published playbooks, Erne argues that Shakespeare wrote many of his plays with a readership in mind and that these “literary” texts would have been abridged for the stage because they were too long for performance. The variant early texts of Romeo and Ju…