Paula Baldwin Lind

Text, Stage, and Page: Garrick, Johnson, and the Editing of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Eighteenth Century

This article examines two contemporary eighteenth-century editions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare: David Garrick’s stage adaptation (1763) and Samuel Johnson’s critical edition (1765). Challenging the view that textual variation is primarily explained by chronological distance from the moment of au...