Abstract:
This paper summarizes the editing trends on Shakespeare’s works from the early modern period to the advent of digital texts. In doing this, I have highlighted the moral burden with which editors om Heminges and Condell through the eighteenth-century editors down to the New Bibliographers have tried to improve on Shakespeare, or, thereby, to re-present him from different editorial perspectives: from viewing the editor as a parent to viewing his as an inspector of facts and figures. In preparing this essay I have depended on certain scholarly essays, which I have acknowledged within the text. I have also stood by the postmodernist perception that a unitary text for a Shakespearean play is never possible to establish.
