A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts (Material Readings in Early Modern Culture)

A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts provides a series of answers written by more than forty editors of diverse texts addressing the 'how-to's' of completing an excellent scholarly edition.The Handbook is primarily a practical guide rather than a theoretical forum; it airs common problems and offers a number of solutions to help a range of interested readers, from the lone editor of an unedited document, through to the established academic planning a team-enterprise, multi-volume re-editing of a canonical author.Explicitly, this Handbook does not aim to produce a linear treatise telling its readers how they 'should' edit.Instead, it provides them with a thematically ordered collection of insights drawn from the practical experiences of a symposium of editors.Many implicit areas of consensus on good practice in editing are recorded here, but there are also areas of legitimate disagreement to be charted.The Handbook draws together a diverse range of first person narratives detailing