The Complete Works of James Shirley (1596-1666) (Editorial Project)

The Complete Works of James Shirley（1596-1666）：A Modernized，Critical Edition in 10 October with music scores（OUP）and an Electronic Old-Spelling Edition of early print and manuscriptions我们将编辑The Complete Works of James Shirley（CWJS），一个包含大约50个作品的语料库。詹姆斯·雪莉是英国文艺复兴后期最重要的戏剧作家之一，创作于17世纪20年代至60年代，但他的全部作品（包括悲剧，喜剧，悲喜剧，面具，田园诗，道德，诗歌，格言和语法）从未被完全编辑过。我们全面的学术版将包括雪莉的显着输出的全方位，并提出了一个多方面的十七世纪的作者：不仅是一个诗人，但活跃在英格兰和爱尔兰的剧作家，语法学家和翻译，其语言研究在十八世纪重印。雪莉的作品呼应和建立在他的伊丽莎白和蚕豆前辈，如莎士比亚，博蒙/弗莱彻，和福特的艺术。没有他卡罗琳戏剧将是不可想象的。雪莉是上流社会仪式的超然观察者，擅长礼貌的谈话及其黑暗的暗流。他的作品探讨了卡罗琳社会的紧张局势。他戏剧中的女性角色标志着当时对女性表演的态度发生了巨大变化。在这种情况下，雪莉对歌曲和舞蹈（女性可以接触的表演领域）的关注尤其值得注意。他的戏剧一般通过一系列非常详细的非语言线索（如声音和动作）来描绘人物：仅喜剧就包含数百个舞蹈参考，其中许多现在已经模糊不清。通过阐明这些，该版本将挖掘17世纪英国文化史中丢失的细节，并使它们第一次为更广泛的读者所接受。CWJS将充分响应雪莉的文学和历史范围，填补了卡罗琳戏剧和文化的研究严重的差距，并显着改变了十七世纪英格兰（和爱尔兰）的文学景观的外观。一卷批评文章（临时标题，牛津大学出版社）将包含对雪莉和他的工作的文化背景，并传达雪莉对卡罗琳文化的影响，以一般读者通俗易懂的书面文章。此外，我们正在与牛津大学出版社协商出版一本《詹姆斯·雪莉作品选》，向非专业读者介绍雪莉的一些最佳作品。我们的团队包括杰出而经验丰富的编辑，卡罗琳文化领域的领先学者，以及早期现代诗歌，人文计算，手稿和印刷史，戏剧，音乐和舞蹈方面的专家。这个版本，以及我们将出版的研究与它有关，将为研究人员和学生在英语和爱尔兰文学和戏剧提供资源。他们将呼吁音乐学家，文化历史学家和读者感兴趣的文艺复兴和巴洛克时期的社会实践。

The Complete Works of James Shirley (1596-1666): A Modernized, Critical Edition in 10 Volumes with music scores (OUP) and an Electronic Old-Spelling Edition of early print and manuscript witnessesWe will edit The Complete Works of James Shirley (CWJS), a corpus of around 50 works. James Shirley was one of the most significant dramatic writers of the late English Renaissance, productive between the 1620s and the 1660s, yet his complete works (including tragedies, comedies, tragicomedies, masques, pastorals, moralities, poems, aphorisms and grammars) have never been fully edited. Our comprehensive scholarly edition will embrace the full range of Shirley's remarkable output and present a multifaceted seventeenth-century author: not only a poet, but a playwright active in England and Ireland, and grammarian and translator whose linguistic studies were reprinted in the eighteenth century. Shirley's work echoes and builds upon the art of his Elizabethan and Jacobean predecessors, such as Shakespeare, Beaumont/Fletcher, and Ford. Caroline drama would be unthinkable without him. Shirley, a detached observer of the rituals of the upper classes, specializes in polite conversation and its darker undercurrents. His work probes the tensions of Caroline society. The strong female characters in his plays mark a sea-change in attitudes to female performance at the time. In this context Shirley's pre-occupation with song and dance - areas of performance which were accessible to women - is particularly noteworthy. His drama in general portrays characters through an uncommonly detailed range of non-verbal clues such as sound and movement: the comedies alone contain several hundred references to dancing, many of them now obscure. By elucidating these, the edition will excavate lost details in the cultural history of seventeenth-century England, and make them for the first time accessible to a more general readership. CWJS will respond fully to Shirley's literary and historical scope, fill a serious gap in the study of Caroline theatre and culture, and significantly change the look of the literary landscape in seventeenth-century England (and Ireland). A volume of Critical Essays (provisional title, OUP) will contain accessibly written essays on Shirley and the cultural context of his work and convey Shirley's impact on Caroline culture to a general readership. Furthermore, we are negotiating a volume of The Selected Works of James Shirley with OUP to introduce some of Shirley's finest pieces to a non-specialist audience.Our team includes distinguished and experienced editors, leading scholars in the field of Caroline culture, as well as experts on early modern poetry, Humanities computing, manuscript and printing history, theatre, music and dance. This edition, and the studies we will publish in relation to it, will provide resources for researchers and students in English and Irish literature and theatre. They will appeal to musicologists, cultural historians, and readers interested in the social practices of the Renaissance and the Baroque.