The Triple Anvil Press HAMLET
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Product Description<br/><br/><br/>For several years, the publishers of<br/>The Triple Anvil Press HAMLET have held a collection of over 20 watercolor images from<br/>Hamlet. The images were based on century-old vignette sized woodcuts by John Austen with recent watercolor work by Washington, DC artist Rose Jaffe. In 2013, the editors extracted the narrative of Claudius from the 4000-line text of<br/>Hamlet and published six of the illustrations in<br/>The Brief Reign and Death of King Claudius, a play within the text of Shakespeare s HAMLET. From among the 5600 books from 34 countries entered in the Independent Publishers annual awards, the<br/>Brief Reign was one of nine designated Outstanding Book of the Year.<br/>The Triple Anvil Press HAMLET is produced in a similar limited edition format with over 20 of the watercolor vignettes, one appearing at the beginning of each scene, in an edition featuring archival-quality laid-finish paper, hand-marbled endpapers, and fine attention to detail.<br/> Notes on the text:<br/> In a century of private press editions, featuring the work of talented artists, many have no introductory notes on their texts, including the many textual variants. This is curious because Hamlet has come down to us in the form of three texts, two of which form the basis of most editions, The publishers of this edition of Hamlet determined that they would not produce an edition without a significant text.<br/> The text in most modern editions is a primarily a conflation of two texts: the text of the 2nd Quarto (Q2) of 1604/5 and the text that appears in the First Folio (F) of 1623. The Howland editors have charted 288 words that are variant between these two texts, words that are in lines that are otherwise identical. The editors of nine respected editions do not agree on 158 of these variant words, and the range of Q2 choices is from almost 90% (Riverside) to less than 10% (Oxford). Some editors favor Q2 choices on the basis that the Q2 text might be closer to Shakespeare s manuscript, while others favor Folio choices, believing them to be closer to the text as acted. <br/>For readers interested in the complete analysis and rationale for each choice, the editors have prepared a companion publication, The Howland Research Text of HAMLET, which includes the rationale for each choice in the Howland text and charts showing how each of the selected variant words appears in Q1, Q2, the Folio text, the Howland Research text, and each of the nine respected editions consulted.<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Charles Adams Kelly founded Howland Research and the Triple Anvil Press in 1995. Kelly has won design recognitions and awards since the 1980s, and the Press has won Book Arts and Craftsmanship awards in 2008 and 2014, including the 2014 Independent Publishers Outstanding Book of the Year. The 2014 award was won by Kelly and Dayna Leigh Plehn, a gifted research assistant, editor, and designer. Their work on the variant texts of<br/>Hamlet has been cited in the<br/>Arden Shakespeare Hamlet, Revised Edition of 2016.
The Triple Anvil Press HAMLET William Shakespeare
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Product Description<br/><br/><br/>For several years, the publishers of<br/>The Triple Anvil Press HAMLET have held a collection of over 20 watercolor images from<br/>Hamlet. The images were based on century-old vignette sized woodcuts by John Austen with recent watercolor work by Washington, DC artist Rose Jaffe. In 2013, the editors extracted the narrative of Claudius from the 4000-line text of<br/>Hamlet and published six of the illustrations in<br/>The Brief Reign and Death of King Claudius, a play within the text of Shakespeare s HAMLET. From among the 5600 books from 34 countries entered in the Independent Publishers annual awards, the<br/>Brief Reign was one of nine designated Outstanding Book of the Year.<br/>The Triple Anvil Press HAMLET is produced in a similar limited edition format with over 20 of the watercolor vignettes, one appearing at the beginning of each scene, in an edition featuring archival-quality laid-finish paper, hand-marbled endpapers, and fine attention to detail.<br/> Notes on the text:<br/> In a century of private press editions, featuring the work of talented artists, many have no introductory notes on their texts, including the many textual variants. This is curious because Hamlet has come down to us in the form of three texts, two of which form the basis of most editions, The publishers of this edition of Hamlet determined that they would not produce an edition without a significant text.<br/> The text in most modern editions is a primarily a conflation of two texts: the text of the 2nd Quarto (Q2) of 1604/5 and the text that appears in the First Folio (F) of 1623. The Howland editors have charted 288 words that are variant between these two texts, words that are in lines that are otherwise identical. The editors of nine respected editions do not agree on 158 of these variant words, and the range of Q2 choices is from almost 90% (Riverside) to less than 10% (Oxford). Some editors favor Q2 choices on the basis that the Q2 text might be closer to Shakespeare s manuscript, while others favor Folio choices, believing them to be closer to the text as acted. <br/>For readers interested in the complete analysis and rationale for each choice, the editors have prepared a companion publication, The Howland Research Text of HAMLET, which includes the rationale for each choice in the Howland text and charts showing how each of the selected variant words appears in Q1, Q2, the Folio text, the Howland Research text, and each of the nine respected editions consulted.<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Charles Adams Kelly founded Howland Research and the Triple Anvil Press in 1995. Kelly has won design recognitions and awards since the 1980s, and the Press has won Book Arts and Craftsmanship awards in 2008 and 2014, including the 2014 Independent Publishers Outstanding Book of the Year. The 2014 award was won by Kelly and Dayna Leigh Plehn, a gifted research assistant, editor, and designer. Their work on the variant texts of<br/>Hamlet has been cited in the<br/>Arden Shakespeare Hamlet, Revised Edition of 2016.