{"id":51,"date":"2021-03-09T21:32:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio400.com\/?post_type=publications&p=51"},"modified":"2021-05-21T11:44:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T10:44:04","slug":"editing","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/folio400.com\/publication\/editing\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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John Heminge and Henry Condell despaired at how Shakespeare\u2019s plays had been \u2018abused\u2019, \u2018stolen\u2019, \u2018maimed\u2019 and \u2018deformed\u2019, in previously printed versions.<\/span><\/p>

As editors of the First Folio, they aimed to take the same care with the texts as Shakespeare would have taken himself. And maybe more.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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For many years, Heminge, Condell and Burbage all worked together with Shakespeare in the King\u2019s Men acting company. Burbage was the star, and was the first to perform Hamlet, King Lear, Richard III and Othello. Condell probably appeared in all of Shakespeare\u2019s plays as a co-leading actor, while Heminge helped in the administration of the company, alongside smaller acting roles. All three were name-checked in a poem written when the company\u2019s theatre, the Globe, was destroyed by fire in 1613.<\/span><\/p>

These actors were the most-qualified stakeholders to edit the scripts, and provide an authoritative version.\u00a0 Burbage died in 1619: we don\u2019t know how much involvement he had in preparing the scripts, but as the company\u2019s leader, it is likely he initiated the project.<\/p>

Without doubt, Heminge and Condell were the principal editors. They used promptbooks and manuscripts from the King\u2019s Men \u2013 and possibly from Shakespeare\u2019s family in Stratford-upon-Avon. They also consulted existing editions, correcting and editing them. We can imagine them comparing the playwright\u2019s drafts, neat copies, previous editions, their own handwritten parts, and perhaps their own vivid memories. Their aim was to achieve the best representation of the author\u2019s intentions.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Half of the plays in the First Folio had never been printed before. They may never have survived. Heminge and Condell\u2019s role in preserving Shakespeare\u2019s work was celebrated in 1896 by a statue in the City of London \u2013 a rare example of a monument for a book; the book that became a monument to its author.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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