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

詹姆斯·雪莉全集(1596-1666)：10卷现代化的批评版，配有乐谱(OUP)和早期印刷品和手稿见证的旧拼写电子版。我们将编辑詹姆斯·雪莉全集(CWJS)，一个约50件作品的语料库。詹姆斯·雪莱是英国文艺复兴晚期最重要的戏剧作家之一，他在17世纪20年代至60年代之间创作了大量作品，但他的全集(包括悲剧、喜剧、悲喜剧、面具、牧歌、道德、诗歌、格言和语法)从未被完全编辑过。我们的全面学术版将囊括雪莉非凡的产出的所有方面，并呈现一位多方面的17世纪作家：不仅是一位诗人，而且是一位活跃在英格兰和爱尔兰的剧作家，以及语法学家和翻译家，他的语言学研究在18世纪被重印。雪莉的作品呼应了他的伊丽莎白和雅各布时代前辈的艺术，并建立在他们的基础上，如莎士比亚、博蒙特/弗莱彻和福特。如果没有他，卡洛琳的戏剧将是不可想象的。雪莉是上流社会礼仪的超然观察者，她擅长礼貌的交谈及其黑暗的潜流。他的作品探讨了卡罗琳社会的紧张局势。他戏剧中坚强的女性角色标志着当时人们对女性表演的态度发生了翻天覆地的变化。在这种背景下，雪莉对歌曲和舞蹈的痴迷--这是女性可以接触到的表演领域--尤其值得注意。总的来说，他的戏剧通过一系列异常详细的非语言线索来刻画人物，比如声音和动作：仅喜剧一部就包含数百次关于舞蹈的引用，其中许多现在已经鲜为人知。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，并首次使更广泛的读者能够接触到这些细节。CWJS将充分回应雪莉的文学和历史范畴，填补卡罗琳戏剧和文化研究的严重空白，并显著改变17世纪英国(和爱尔兰)的文学景观。一卷评论文章(暂定书名，OUP)将包含关于雪莉及其作品的文化背景的通俗易懂的文章，并将雪莉对卡罗琳文化的影响传达给普通读者。此外，我们正在与OUP协商一卷詹姆斯·雪莉的精选作品，以向非专业观众介绍雪莉的一些最好的作品。我们的团队包括杰出和经验丰富的编辑，卡罗琳文化领域的知名学者，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。这一版本，以及我们将出版的相关研究，将为英语和爱尔兰文学和戏剧的研究人员和学生提供资源。它们将吸引音乐学者、文化历史学家和对文艺复兴和巴洛克时期的社会实践感兴趣的读者。

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.